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problem with mvtnorm installation

3 messages · Martin Olivier, Roger D. Peng, Torsten Hothorn

Martin Olivier
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Hi all,

I tried to install the mvtnorm library on linux (mandrake version) and i
obtained the following result :

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [mvtnorm.so] Erreur 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'mvtnorm'

Could you help me ?
Best regards,
Olivier
Roger D. Peng
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I'm not familiar with Mandrake but it appears that you are missing either
the readline or perhaps the readline-devel packages (I'm guessing the
names here).  

-roger
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      Torsten Hothorn
    

    

      
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You are using a precompiled binary of R and expect it to know about your
local system configuration when compiling packages sources. In this
special case, readline was installed at compile time but is not at
runtime. Install the readline shared libraries and
header files (something like 'libreadline4-dev') and this problem should
be gone. Alternatively, install R from its sources which is always a good
idea ... This issue was discussed on r-help several times, wasn't it,
Dirk? ;-)

best,

Torsten