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trouble with rgl on opensuse 11.1

Erin Hodgess 
Dear R People:

I upgraded to Open Suse 11.1 and am having trouble with the rgl
package, which I need for other applications.

Here is the install output:
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib/rgl_0.84.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1670659 bytes (1.6 Mb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 1.6 Mb

* Installing *source* package ?rgl? ...
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc -std=gnu99
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking for libpng-config... yes
configure: using libpng-config
configure: using libpng dynamic linkage
checking for X... libraries , headers
checking GL/gl.h usability... yes
checking GL/gl.h presence... yes
checking for GL/gl.h... yes
checking GL/glu.h usability... no
checking GL/glu.h presence... no
checking for GL/glu.h... no
configure: error: missing required header GL/glu.h
ERROR: configuration failed for package ?rgl?
* Removing ?/home/erin/Desktop/R-2.9.0/library/rgl?

The downloaded packages are in
	?/tmp/RtmpxqeD6b/downloaded_packages?
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning message:
In install.packages("rgl", depen = TRUE) :
  installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status
Any help would be much appreciate.

Thanks,
Erin