compiling R-2.9.2 or R-2.10.0 on ubuntu 9.04 (powerpc)
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 01:13 -0800, cremi wrote:
I habe installed ubuntu 9.04 server (powerpc) i want to install an R version
2.9.0 to run rmpi.
When i add the repository to my sources.list deb http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/ with #sudo apt-get install r-base i get this: The following packages have unmet dependencies: r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.10.0-1jaunty0) but 2.8.1-1 is to be installed Depends: r-recommended (= 2.10.0-1jaunty0) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages There exists no binary of on the r-homepage for powerpc (only for i386 or amd64) so I tryied to install from source (R-2.9.2 and R-2.10.0) #./configure gives me: ... checking for history_truncate_file... no configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available #./configure --with-readline=no i get this error checking whether f77 appends extra underscores to external names... yes checking whether mixed C/Fortran code can be run... configure: WARNING: cannot run mixed C/Fortran code configure: error: Maybe check LDFLAGS for paths to Fortran libraries? i have installed: libg2-dev libg2c0 libx11-dev build-essential i even install gnome-desktop-environment now I don't know what to try next. Hopefully someone can help me. Regards
Maybe install "libcnf-dev" ( a library for C and Fortran mixed programming ) and try again (?). For any warning/ missing package search for it in the repositories, e.g.: sudo apt-cache search f77 Also useful is to use sometimes "apt-file": # install it sudo apt-get install apt-file # it will prompt for update, let it update # use it sudo apt-file find f77 # the latter will give all(?) possible files related with f77 (I think). Hope this helps. Regards, Nikos