[R-sig-Debian] configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 March 2013 at 14:19, Srinivasan, Sathish  K wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| Thanks for the reply.
| I read the link for pre-builds before I posted an email. However, I did not know the way to configure the installation directory using apt-get utility. This is the only reason, why I chose to build and compile the source package where I can configure the installation directory using --prefix option or by passing the directory name to the make command. Do have any suggestion for it please? I mean, if you use apt-get install, it will override the previous installation of R, right? My requirement is to hold onto 2 different versions of R in my system.

Sorry, this list supports the packages a few of us provide, pro-bono and in
our spare time.  We can't do extra free consulting.  You'll need to work
this out.  

And yes, it's not hard if you know the details, but I don't have the time or
bandwidth to teach you. Maybe there is a local user group you can tap into.

Otherwise, R itself gives you an entire manual entitled 'R Installation and
Adminstration'.  All this is documented.

Sorry, Dirk


| 
| Also, this is the first time, I used build-dep feature of apt-get utility, so I have no prior knowledge of building packages for debian. 
| 
| In one of the stackoverflow answers, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8343686/how-to-install-2-different-r-versions-on-debian , you mentioned about "local debian build". What is it actually means? You refered diff.gz in your following answers. Could you please expound on it in detail or provide some reading links for it, if possible.
| 
| -Sathish
| ________________________________________
| From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [edd at debian.org]
| Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 1:46 PM
| To: Srinivasan, Sathish  K
| Cc: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
| Subject: [R-sig-Debian] configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available
| 
| On 21 March 2013 at 23:56, Srinivasan, Sathish  K wrote:
| | Hi everyone,
| | I am trying to install R.2.15.3 from the source code obtained from http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz  in my Debian version: Squeeze box.
| 
| That should exist pre-build.  Did you read
| 
|        http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
| 
| and indeed
| 
|        http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/squeeze-cran/
| 
| contains 2.15.3 for squeeze.
| 
| | In order to have multiple versions of R in my system, I gave this command to configure.
| |
| | ./configure --prefix=/opt/R2.15.3/
| |
| | Subsequently, I got two warnings and one error message such as the following:
| |
| | configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
| | configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of vignettes and help pages
| | configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available
| |
| | Could someone direct me with a solution to the above issues. From the error messages, I can understand that I am not having the required X11 headers/libs, so what packages in debian squeeze should I have to install for the error messages to disappear during compilation of R source code.
| 
| Tim already helped you with this. In essence, you just misread the error message.
| 
| But you should not have to build this by hand unless you really need to (and
| know how to).
| 
| Dirk
| 
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| Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com

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