[R] Installing Package rgl - Compilation Fails

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Tue Feb 20 15:59:22 CET 2007


On 2/20/2007 9:44 AM, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 15:11 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>> The error is different now. It now cannot find Xext library. Do a yum search on this and install that.
>> 
>> yum provides libXext
>> 
>> which will give you the package Xext which needs to be installed.
>> 
>> You may also need to install the libXext-devel.i386 package.
>> 
>> HTH.
>> Ranjan
>> 
>> 
> 
> Thanks. Installing libXext-devel allowed rgl to install.

Would you mind summarizing what you started from, and what extras you 
needed to install?  I'd like to add this information to the rgl docs.

Duncan Murdoch



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