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georgianao
June 7th, 2008, 05:46 AM
Dear all,
I have problems installing R-2.7.0 on Ubuntu.
Steps taken:
I removed previous version R-2.6.2 which I installed previously
I downloaded the tar.gz file from CRAN
georgiana@ghome:~/R-2.7.0$ tar -zxvf R-2.7.0.tar.gz
georgiana@ghome:~/R-2.7.0$ ./configure

I got the following error:
configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available


I searched on the forum list and I tried the following suggestions but nothing worked:
georgiana@ghome:~/R-2.7.0$ sudo apt-get install x11-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package x11-dev
georgiana@ghome:~/R-2.7.0$

georgiana@ghome:~/R-2.7.0$ sudo apt-cache search xlibs dev
xlibs-static-dev - transitional metapackage
georgiana@ghome:~/R-2.7.0$
I updated my source file and it looks like this:



#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/ hardy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse

Any help would be really appreciated!
Thank you!

iaculallad
June 7th, 2008, 05:50 AM
Try to install the build essential files first:


sudo apt-get install build-essential

and redo your ./configure.

georgianao
June 7th, 2008, 02:24 PM
It seems that the build essential is already installed, I still get the same error in ./configure:
georgiana@ghome:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libblas-dev libgfortran2 libpcre3-dev libpng12-dev libpcrecpp0
libreadline5-dev gfortran-4.2 libgmp3c2 libjpeg62-dev gfortran libblas3gf
tcl8.4 libmpfr1ldbl tk8.4 libncurses5-dev dpatch libbz2-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
georgiana@ghome:~$

BAsed on another suggestion, I tried to install libx11 -dev but it this is also already installed:
georgiana@ghome:~$ sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libx11-dev is already the newest version.
libx11-dev set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libblas-dev libgfortran2 libpcre3-dev libpng12-dev libpcrecpp0
libreadline5-dev gfortran-4.2 libgmp3c2 libjpeg62-dev gfortran libblas3gf
tcl8.4 libmpfr1ldbl tk8.4 libncurses5-dev dpatch libbz2-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
georgiana@ghome:~$

Any other suggestions on how to install R-2.7.0 are really appreciated!

monkeyking
June 7th, 2008, 02:48 PM
Hi, I installed 2.7.0 on ubuntu 8.04 using this guide
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=639710

just remember to change to the sources.list to some hardy instead of feisty.

If you still have problems write back.