[R-sig-Debian] Installing TMAP in R Studio on Linux Mint

Abed W. Ayyad abdulhadi.ayyad at uclmail.net
Mon Jun 1 11:02:32 CEST 2015 

Thank you for this advice, I'm going to try changing my list of software
sources.

On 31 May 2015 at 23:26, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Abed W. Ayyad <
> abdulhadi.ayyad at uclmail.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear Dirk et al,
>>
>> What I've tried is to install libgeos-dev:
>> sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev
>>
>
> I had no problem installing tmap on my Linux Mint 17.1 system:
>
> $ cat /etc/lsb-release
> DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.1
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=rebecca
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca"
>
> $ apt-cache show libgeos-dev
> Package: libgeos-dev
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/libdevel
> Installed-Size: 389
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Original-Maintainer: Debian GIS Project <
> pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Architecture: amd64
> Source: geos
> Version: 3.4.2-4ubuntu1
> Depends: libgeos-c1 (= 3.4.2-4ubuntu1)
> Suggests: libgdal-doc
> Filename: pool/universe/g/geos/libgeos-dev_3.4.2-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb
> Size: 58388
> MD5sum: cbe65f77f3d3116efe6c07ad47fc3580
> SHA1: 7ec397bfd27cdabee21a21ed846e618b6df3b0e1
> SHA256: 23610755d31948bfc22b46af7df3fea058850e2d07028ecec2e22e1308bd3734
> Description-en_CA: Geometry engine for GIS - Development files
>  GEOS provides a spatial object model and fundamental geometric functions.
>  It implements the geometry model defined in the OpenGIS Consortium Simple
>  Features Specification for SQL.
>  .
>  This package contains the headers and libraries needed to develop programs
>  using GEOS.
> Description-md5: 3f1f0c4d5fc2ab9465b9947eec04cda4
> Homepage: http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
> Origin: Ubuntu
>
>
> Check "Software Sources".  There should be in the Mirrors section
> for "Main (rebecca)" and "Base (trusty)".
> "Base" is for Mint-specifc packages, but the vast majority
> just come from "Main", which is Ubuntu trusty.
>
> I have had problems with mirror sites that weren't being maintained, so
> I suggest you try selecting a different site for the Base packages.
>
>
>
>>
>> Which gives me, even after adding the ubuntugis-unstable PPA:
>> E: Unable to locate package libgeos-dev
>>
>> So I'm a little stuck at the moment. I'm trying to install TMAP on
>> R-Studio, which requires a number of packages all of which rely on the
>> libgeos-dev being in place, and I can't seem to find it.
>>
>> Many thanks again and in advance,
>>
>> Abed
>>
>> On 31 May 2015 at 16:20, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > On 31 May 2015 at 09:48, Abed W. Ayyad wrote:
>> > | Copied and sent from another address:
>> > |
>> > |
>> > | On 31 May 2015 at 09:43, Abed W. Ayyad <imraualkays at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > |
>> > | > To the R-Sig-Debian list:
>> > | >
>> > | > Hello, this is my first post to the list and I hope that making it
>> > short
>> > | > and swift does not make it come across as abrupt or rude.
>> > | >
>> > | > I'm having trouble installing the TMAP package on R-Studio on my
>> build
>> > of
>> > | > Linux Mint. I was able to narrow this down to the lack of the
>> > libgeos-dev
>> > | > library, which I tried to install via the terminal, but I constantly
>> > get
>> > | > the "unable to locate package" error. I've also changed/added
>> > repositories
>> > | > several times over the past week or so.
>> >
>> > Exactly what did you try?
>> >
>> > My system has libgeos-dev.  At the prompt:
>> >
>> > edd at max:~$ apt-cache show libgeos-dev
>> > Package: libgeos-dev
>> > Priority: optional
>> > Section: universe/libdevel
>> > Installed-Size: 403
>> > Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> > Original-Maintainer: Debian GIS Project <
>> > pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> > Architecture: amd64
>> > Source: geos
>> > Version: 3.4.2-6build1
>> > Depends: libgeos-c1 (= 3.4.2-6build1)
>> > Suggests: libgdal-doc
>> > Filename: pool/universe/g/geos/libgeos-dev_3.4.2-6build1_amd64.deb
>> > Size: 60386
>> > MD5sum: de32c018df4d9e4bad8e52e7fc8cd610
>> > SHA1: 2a0bfb9b45dfac27f5dd50afc826619e1b3b9f87
>> > SHA256: 998ce25887b62c1ad9ea0829e0306295df6f380bc83a8f5e136246bc46631c45
>> > Description-en: Geometry engine for GIS - Development files
>> >  GEOS provides a spatial object model and fundamental geometric
>> >  functions. It implements the geometry model defined in the
>> >  OpenGIS Consortium Simple Features Specification for SQL.
>> >  .
>> >  This package contains the headers and libraries needed to
>> >  develop programs using GEOS.
>> > Description-md5: 3f1f0c4d5fc2ab9465b9947eec04cda4
>> > Homepage: http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
>> > Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
>> > Origin: Ubuntu
>> >
>> > edd at max:~$ apt-cache policy libgeos-dev
>> > libgeos-dev:
>> >   Installed: 3.4.2-6build1
>> >   Candidate: 3.4.2-6build1
>> >   Version table:
>> >  *** 3.4.2-6build1 0
>> >         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64
>> > Packages
>> >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> > edd at max:~$
>> >
>> > This shows that if I did
>> >
>> >      sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev
>> >
>> > it would istall version 3.4.2-6build1 from the main ubuntu archive.
>> >
>> > | > Is there anything that can be done for this problem? Has the
>> > libgeos-dev
>> > | > library been taken off of the repositories?
>> >
>> > I do not know what Mint does but I doubt it.
>> >
>> > Dirk
>> >
>> > | > Best regards,
>> > | >
>> > | > Abed Ayyad
>> > | >
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