On 1 March 2010 at 08:08, Anne York wrote: | Hi Michael: | | I already tried reinstalling from with R on cran -- after | checking on the status of LAPACK: | | /usr/bin/R CMD config LAPACK_LIBS | | to which the system responded | | -llapack | | The result was the same. The programs within lme4 failed to | compile because -llapack was not found. The error message | during installation was: | | /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Do 'dpkg -l | grep lapack' and make sure you see liblapack-dev as installed. Also do 'ldd /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R' and make sure you do _not_ have a depends on Rlapack.so. There was an important change in the Fortran compiler a while back; I no longer anything as ancient as Ubuntu 8.04. It may still date back to those days... Dirk -- Registration is open for the 2nd International conference R / Finance 2010 See http://www.RinFinance.com for details, and see you in Chicago in April! _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian