Am Dienstag, 8. November 2016, 08:28:35 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On 8 November 2016 at 14:39, Lentes, Bernd wrote: > | i'd like to install R 2.5 on an Ubuntu 14.04. > | I have a special software requiring this old version. > | > | While ./configure, i get the following error: > | > | checking for mbstate_t... yes > | checking for X... no > | configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not > | available > | > | The problem is that i don't know which headers or libraries are missing, > | and when i search with aptitude in the Ubuntu repositories i find a ton > | of them and don't know which one to install. > | > | Can anyone help me ? > > Builds are fully automated; the file debian/control lists in Build-Depends: > exactly which packages are needed. Now, we are usually concerned with > getting _current_ versions right. For R 3.3.2 we currently have > > Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.1.0), g++ (>= 4:4.1.0), gfortran (>= > 4:4.1.0), libblas-dev, liblapack-dev (>= 3.1.1), tcl8.6-dev, tk8.6-dev, > bison, groff-base, libncurses5-dev, libreadline-dev, debhelper (>= 7.2.3), > texinfo (>= 4.1-2), libbz2-dev, liblzma-dev, libpcre3-dev, > libcurl4-openssl-dev | libcurl4-dev, xdg-utils, zlib1g-dev, libpng-dev, > libjpeg-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev, x11proto-core-dev, libpango1.0-dev, > libcairo2-dev, libtiff5-dev, xvfb, xauth, xfonts-base, texlive-base, > texlive-latex-base, texlive-generic-recommended, > texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-fonts-extra, texlive-extra-utils, > texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-extra, default-jdk [!arm !hppa > !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386], mpack, bash-completion > > but some of these things are moving targets as packages are renamed or > reorganised. Start from there.
you can get the build dependencies of current R easily with apt-get build-dep r-base Good luck, Johannes _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian