On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: > >>>>> "EH" == Erin Hodgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> on Sun, 25 May 2008 13:27:04 -0500 writes: > > EH> Try: ./configure --with-x=no > > well...... no! really don't.
Seconded. At best this qualified for the 'then do not do it' school of advice to the 'it hurts when I do this'. But it truly missed the underlying issue. See below. > If you want to enjoy a Linux system and building from the > source, and then maybe learn how that is happening, learning > about shell scripts and 'make' and ... > then rather do get the extra ubuntu packages needed. Or if you 'just' want to run it, install Ubuntu and learn to take advantage of the work of others. > The advice (below) to get the 'xorg-dev' > is definitely good advice. I have it on the list of packages > I'd always want to install in addition to the basic > ubuntu/debian list. > > But you most probably will find that you need a few more tools / > libraries / headers for your ubuntu system such that you can > build R with all the bells and whistles possible. > > There's the Debian (and "hence" Ubuntu) package > 'r-base-dev' > which contains 'r-base' (i.e. a *binary* version of R; the one > Dirk Eddelbuettel mentioned), > but also most of the compilers/libraries/... that you'd want to > build R from the sources. Just to be a bit more precise: i) 'apt-get install r-base' will get you r-base-core and all the recommended packages --- use this if you want to _run_ R ii) 'apt-get install r-base-dev' will get all the common header files, as well as r-base-core use this if you _also want to build / install R packages_ incl from CRAN iii) 'apt-get build-dep r-base' will get you _build dependencies_ for R and is probably what Martin wanted here. > Last time I did get 'r-base-dev' on a "virgin" ubuntu system, > I vaguely remember that it did not contain *really* all the > tools I'd wanted, but almost all. Bug reports are always welcome and a more constructive form of moving things forward than an off-hand comment here :-) Note that I tend not to get the ones filed against Ubuntu so file against Debian please. > e.g., you may also want the two packages > > tcl8.4-dev > tk8.4-dev Just curious: what did you need them for ? In case you wanted to build R, see iii) above as a possibly more focussed way to get there. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ 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.