[R] X11 problem

[Linlin Yan (颜林林)]

Sorry for the wrong package name. It should be:
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 06:51 -0700, carol white wrote:
> Thanks I ran your command but still get the same error message when I run ./configure
> 
> configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Linlin Yan (颜林林) <yanlinlin82 at gmail.com>
> To: carol white <wht_crl at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 3:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] X11 problem
> 
> In order to build R-2.13.1 from source with X11, I guess you need to
> install X11 develop library. Please try this:
> sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
> 
> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 05:49 -0700, carol white wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply. I used the following commands:
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get install r-base
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Kevin E. Thorpe <kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca>
> > To: carol white <wht_crl at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: "r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: [R] X11 problem
> > 
> > On 08/25/2011 08:27 AM, carol white wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > TO update R under Ubuntu on my macchine, I downloaded R-2.13.1. When running ./configure, I got the following error message:
> > >
> > > checking for X... no
> > > configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > But I could use X11() function in R-2-10. So where does the problem come from?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Carol
> > >
> > 
> > It looks like you're compiling from source and your system does not have 
> > the header files required installed.  Did you compile your previous 
> > version or use a pre-built (binary) package?  A binary package would not 
> > require the headers.
> > 
> > I don't use Ubuntu, so I don't know what the name of packages you need 
> > for the headers.  Typically the packages have the devel versions 
> > separate, you you need those.
> >