[R] confige error:X11 headres/libs

[Kevin E. Thorpe]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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.
> 

They have the same names on my SuSE 9.2 installation as Prof. Ripley
indicated for a Fedora Core system.

On SuSE, you need to install these packages with YaST (assuming that's
what you are using for system admin).

> 
> 
> 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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Kevin E. Thorpe
Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
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