Hi All: I did what Gavin explained and I got the error

"configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
available".

so then i read the R installation manual and it s says that I need libX11,
libX11-devel, libXt and libXt-devel.
It also mentioned libtiprc so I used the software manager and installed
the  devels of above since they hadn't
been installed.

I don't know the mechanism that occurs when i do apply with th software
manager but I tried configure again and I'm still getting the same error.
Maybe wherever the devels got installed is not on my path ?
That's the only thing I can think of but i'm not sure how to investigate
that further. thanks.







On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson@ucl.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 10:36 +1300, Steve Taylor wrote:
> > I'd like to know that too. "yum info R" shows that the repository is
> > lagging by two versions of R.  I've asked about getting that updated on
> > fedoraforums.
>
> What are you missing from the R Installation and Administration manual?
>
> I regularly use svn to checkout the source tree and then it is a
> configure, make, make check, make install away.
>
> Yes you will need *-devel packages to be installed from the repositories
> using yum, but configure will tell you if you have something missing.
> The manual I mentioned contains pointers as to which packages you need.
>
> I don't know exactly what packages are required to compile R from
> source, but if you are having problems, post the output from configure
> and I should be able to point you in the right direction.
>
> G
>
> >
> > On 6 November 2011 04:08, Mark Leeds <markleeds2@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi: Does anyone know of instructions for installing R.2.14.0 on
> > > fedora-linux ( I'm using f14 ) using only the tar.gz file. I don't
> think
> > > it's available at the fedora repo so I can't use yum. I've look at the
> > > R-installation instructions but I didn't get very far with that.  Even
> just
> > > an internet link is appreciated. Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > Mark
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