Thanks for the replies, 1st, installing the BLAS library indeed worked out, and I was able to load the packages.
2nd, I was trying to build from repository directly. But even worse, I cannot tell you if i touched the BLAS linker flags, BUT there seem to be more problems of a similar nature, ie. I am trying to install a package which utilises Java, and when it tests during installation if it can compile Java, it failes and aborts the installation. Since I did this on the linux console, I cant copy and paste the error into this message, but it clearly is missing the link to /javac and /javah. i'll type it down anyway: checking Java Support in R... configure: Error: cannot determine complete Java config JAVA_HOME: usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-i386/jre JAVA: usr/bin/java JAVAC: JAVAH: JAVA_CPPFLAGS: JAVA_LIBS: ....... Running javareconf did not show any results, although java is installed correctly through the ubuntu software center, supposing that works without errors. The package I am failing with is StatET for R: install.packages(c("rj", "rj.gd"), repos="http://download.walware.de/rj-1.1") It fails trying to compile Java, and aborts. I am on R 2.15 and ubuntu 12.04 and java6openjdk thanks -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problems-installing-Packages-tp4632217p4632288.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.