Dear Ivailo, thanks for the quick reply.

Actually it was quite helpful and I have now installed rgeos properlly. It
was in fact only needind the geos-devel.
many thanks!

Ferd.


2013/7/7 Ivailo <ubuntero.9161@gmail.com>

> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Ferdinand Bersse <fvbersse@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I am trying to install rgeos package in a Red-Hat Linux server, but I
> > receive the following error in the install report. I would appreciate any
> > insights on how to solve the problem:
> >
> ...
> > ./configure: line 1385: geos-config: command not found
> > no
> > configure: error: geos-config not usable
> > ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgeos’
>
> Hi Ferdinand,
>
> as the output says, you don't have the geos-config file on your
> system. Therefore you need to install the .rpm that provides the file
> before installing rgeos. I'm not on a RH machine and I'm guessing now
> that the needed package might be something like geos-devel-*.rpm.
> Perhaps you can use the RH package tools to locate and install the
> exact package.
>
> HTH,
> Ivailo
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