It could be the case that /usr/lib/libgfortran.so is a broken symlink
resulting from earlier package installations, removals and OS upgrades. Try
this:

sudo dpkg --purge gfortran
sudo apt-get install gfortran

(See also
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6302209/building-r-package-getting-error-ld-cannot-find-lgfortran
)


T.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Hermann Norpois <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am unable to install igraph on:
> R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) -- "Sincere Pumpkin Patch"
> Ubuntu 14.04.
> After the usual install.packages ('igraph') ...
> This is the error message:
>
> ....
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [igraph.so] Fehler 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘igraph’
> * removing ‘/home/jbreu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/igraph’
>
> Die heruntergeladenen Quellpakete sind in
>     ‘/tmp/RtmpDnTswM/downloaded_packages’
> Warnmeldung:
> In install.packages("igraph") :
>   Installation des Pakets ‘igraph’ hatte Exit-Status ungleich 0
>
> I checked if r-base-dev was installed ...
> ~$ sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> r-base-dev is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> This is my gfortran version:
> ~$ gfortran --version
> GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 4.8.5-2ubuntu1~14.04.1) 4.8.5
> Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> GNU Fortran comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> You may redistribute copies of GNU Fortran
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING
>
> How should I continue?
> Thanks
> Hermann
>
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