On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, John C Frain wrote: > I have installed R, Octave, Maxima, TexLive and several other > programs of interest. The latest version of Gretl on the Ubuntu > repositories is 1.7.1 which is a bit old. I tried to install > from cvs but have some problems installing lapack3-dev. If my > interpretation of the output below is correct lapack3-dev > requires either refblas3-dev or atlas3-base-dev. It appears > that there is some kind of conflict between these two packages > and r-base-dev.
Unfortunately the choice of blas can be very confusing. You should look for packages with "gf" in the name (gf -> gfortran). Otherwise you're liable to get a blas which depends on the older GNU fortran compiler, g77, and this may well conflict with R. I don't have access to an ubuntu system at work, but from home I can check which packages I have installed on ubuntu 8.04. Allin Cottrell
