Thanks. I had never heard of "build-dep".
Further on you said:
You can always read up :-)
Sure. But there is a virtually infinite amount of stuff that one could
read, only a tiny fraction of which is relevant. And much of which is
confusing, frustratingly obscure, bewildering, sometimes misleading,
and sometimes downright incorrect. Finding and *recognizing* the
relevant (and correct) stuff, without already *knowing* the information
being sought, and without roadmaps, is more often than not virtually
impossible. I think that perhaps Rumsfeld's concept of ``unknown
unknowns'' applies here.
cheers,
Rolf
On 26/08/11 09:17, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 26 August 2011 at 08:39, Rolf Turner wrote:
|
| Carole:
|
| If you really need to install R from source you probably need to do:
|
| sudo apt-get update
| sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
|
| before you do your ./configure and make.
Whoever _really_ insists on building locally should use the _knowledge
embedded in the packaging system_ and instread say
sudo apt-get build-dep r-base
<SNIP>
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