Try: ./configure --with-x=no
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Roland Rau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Nitesh Agrawal wrote: >> >> Hi everyone >> I have been trying to build R in ubuntu 8.04 from its source code but am >> getting the following error. >> >> configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not >> available >> > > > I am currently sitting in front of a Windows machine but I built R on my > laptop at home running Ubuntu 8.04. So hopefully, I don't make a mistake. > What I guess you have to do, is to install the > > xorg-dev > > package. > You could do this by: > sudo apt-get install xorg-dev > in a terminal window. > > And then you can start again with ./configure and so on. > > Does this help? > Roland > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
