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

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Sun May 31 22:26:20 CEST 2015 

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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