On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 5:33 PM, George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to install the rgl package on R 2.6.1 running on Fedora 8 > > (Linux), but I am experiencing the following problems: > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted. > > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl' > > ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl' > > ----------------------------------------- > > > > Any ideas? > > It worked for me (R-2.6.2 from the CRAN packages). Such problems are > generally due to missing '-devel' packages. Unfortunately, figuring out > which package is missing can be problematic. If you have fast internet and > ample disk, look at the "Package Manager" + "Browse" + "Development" for > missing entries in "Development Libraries" and "X Software Development". > On my system, 32 of 34 packages (all but libcurl and libusb) under > "Development Libraries" and 41 of 46 packages under "X .." (all but > icon-*, libXp, xorg-X11-server, xorg-X11-xbitmaps) have been installed. > > If you need to be economical about installing additional packages, > you will need to extract the sources for rgl, built it manually, > figure out what was missing (usually a .h file), figure out which > library contains the missing file, install, and repeat. It would > be useful to have a R-devdeps rpm that simply contains a list of > dependencies on commonly required -devel packages, but of course there > will still be problems with packages that use uncommonly required > libs.
Thanks, George and Tim. The following command installed the missing packages: yum groupinstall "X Software Development" Afterwards, I could install the rlg package, without further trouble. Paul ______________________________________________ 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.
