Hello Trying to install the MySQL package, I get the following error. The help archive contains something on this issue but did not help. I work on linux suse 9.3 Configuration error: Could not locate the library "libz" required by MySQL. The library libz however is not on any mirrors I checked. ------------------------------------------------ Sebastian Leuzinger web http://pages.unibas.ch/botschoen/leuzinger
libz library missing while installing RMySQL
3 messages · Sebastian Leuzinger, Jari Oksanen
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 09:43 +0200, Sebastian Leuzinger wrote:
Hello Trying to install the MySQL package, I get the following error. The help archive contains something on this issue but did not help. I work on linux suse 9.3 Configuration error: Could not locate the library "libz" required by MySQL. The library libz however is not on any mirrors I checked.
Sebastian, You made some R core people very happy: they have tried very hard to explain that there is a difference between a *library* and a *package*, and that this difference really matters. This seems to be the first case on R-News when this distinction really seems to matter: you need a library. I don't know about SuSE (or with some other really weird capitalization), but in my system libz belongs to package zlib that you must install, and in my system you'd probably need zlib-devel as well (this is FC3). So they are system level libraries that come with SuSe instead of R packages. cheers, jari oksanen
Jari Oksanen <jarioksa at sun3.oulu.fi>
Thanks Jari although these libraries are installed now, I get the following message: Configuration error: could not find the MySQL installation include and/or library directories. Manually specify the location of the MySQL libraries and the header files and re-run R CMD INSTALL. Somebody has had this problem before but that did not help me. Can somebody give me a hint? Sebastian
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 10:40, you wrote:
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 09:43 +0200, Sebastian Leuzinger wrote:
Hello Trying to install the MySQL package, I get the following error. The help archive contains something on this issue but did not help. I work on linux suse 9.3 Configuration error: Could not locate the library "libz" required by MySQL. The library libz however is not on any mirrors I checked.
Sebastian, You made some R core people very happy: they have tried very hard to explain that there is a difference between a *library* and a *package*, and that this difference really matters. This seems to be the first case on R-News when this distinction really seems to matter: you need a library. I don't know about SuSE (or with some other really weird capitalization), but in my system libz belongs to package zlib that you must install, and in my system you'd probably need zlib-devel as well (this is FC3). So they are system level libraries that come with SuSe instead of R packages. cheers, jari oksanen
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