> > > The main problem is that Puppy Linux or whatever must have compiled > > > Sage without the right headers available. It's entirely mysterious to > > > us exactly why R requires certain developer tools installed to give > > > you X11. But it doesn't, and so in the spkg-install we check for as > > > many of these things as we know about. However, the Puppy > > > installation probably doesn't have them all, so when it compiled R, it > > > did so without support for this. Here is part of it (without some > > > comments): > > > > if [ -f /usr/include/X11/Xwindows.h ]; then > > > XSUPPORT=yes > > > else > > > if [ "x`uname`" = xSunOS ] && [ -f /usr/X11/lib/libXv.so ] ; then > > > XSUPPORT=yes > > > else > > > XSUPPORT=no > > > fi > > > fi > > > > So one solution would be to compile Sage from scratch (which is easy); > > > another is to download a binary built on a machine which had these > > > things. We really wish there was a good solution to this, but > > > repeated requests on the R help list did not lead to further > > > elucidation. >
> > > I'm not sure whether this will help, but it should help understand > > > what the problem is, anyway. OK, i compiled sage from scratch without any special options and plotting works r.capabilities() gives the same results as the separate R build. That solves the problem for now - thanks. What I can't understand is why this is not working in the precompiled ubuntu binaries and VM image (without warning). It would have been convenient to use those binaries, but it is no problem to compile sage for every version from scratch. -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
