>>>>> "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Wed, 28 May 2008 12:46:50 +0000 writes:
DE> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Martin
DE> 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.
DE> Seconded.
DE> At best this qualified for the 'then do not do it'
DE> school of advice to the 'it hurts when I do this'. But
DE> 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.
DE> Or if you 'just' want to run it, install Ubuntu and
DE> learn to take advantage of the work of others.
indeed.
>> 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.
DE> Just to be a bit more precise:
DE> i) 'apt-get install r-base' will get you r-base-core and
DE> all the recommended packages --- use this if you want to
DE> _run_ R
DE> ii) 'apt-get install r-base-dev' will get all the common
DE> header files, as well as r-base-core use this if you
DE> _also want to build / install R packages_ incl from CRAN
DE> iii) 'apt-get build-dep r-base' will get you _build
DE> dependencies_ for R and is probably what Martin wanted
DE> here.
Yes, indeed, thanks, Dirk!
Martin learns about 'apt-get build-dep' about
every two years, and a year later when he would need it, has
forgotten... :-)
>> 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.
DE> Bug reports are always welcome and a more constructive
DE> form of moving things forward than an off-hand comment
DE> here :-) Note that I tend not to get the ones filed
DE> against Ubuntu so file against Debian please.
>> e.g., you may also want the two packages
>>
>> tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev
DE> Just curious: what did you need them for ? In case you
DE> wanted to build R, see iii) above as a possibly more
DE> focussed way to get there.
yes, indeed.
Martin
DE> Dirk
DE> -- Three out of two people have difficulties with
DE> fractions.
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