[R] confige error:X11 headres/libs

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please do as the file INSTALL asks and read the R-admin.html file.
It says

Remember that some package management systems (such as RPM and deb) make a 
distinction between the user version of a package and the development 
version. The latter usually has the same name but with the extension 
`-devel' or `-dev': you need both versions installed.

Unless you do not want to view graphs on-screen you need `X11' installed, 
including its headers and client libraries. (On Fedora Core Linux this 
means the `xorg-x11-devel' and `xorg-x11-libs' RPMs, for example. Older 
Linuxen used `XFree86-'. Some Debian derivatives apparently also require 
`libxt-dev'.) If you really do not want these you will need to explicitly 
configure R without X11, using --with-x=no.



On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, thomas phillipson wrote:

> Can someone who uses SuSe Linux (I currently use 9.3) please tell me what I
> need toto to avoid the
> message
>
> configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not
> available
>
> without setting --with-x=no
>
> currently my /usr/lib/X11 directory looks like this
>
> ls /usr/lib/X11
> app-defaults  fvwm2      nls        twm          XErrorDB   Xmodmap
> Cards         getconfig  Options    wmmount      xinit      Xmodmap.remote
> etc           icons      proxymngr  x11perfcomp  xkb        Xresources
> fonts         lbxproxy   rgb.txt    xdm          XKeysymDB  xserver
> fs            locale     rstart     xedit        xman.help  xsm
>
>
> thanks
> tom
>
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