Message-ID: <de8c7cb40810301108k6ea2cfach15e928410989c7f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2008-10-30T18:08:27Z
From: Prasenjit Kapat
Subject: Compiling RPostgreSQL on Ubuntu?
In-Reply-To: <18697.38693.539711.331545@ron.nulle.part>
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 30 October 2008 at 02:50, Prasenjit Kapat wrote:
> | I am looking for some instructions on compiling the source package on
> | a Ubuntu 8.04 machine with R 2.7.1.
>
> No different than
> 1) Install the Postgresql header files:
>
> sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
>
> This is always the same: if you want to build against a certain
> feature or library, you need the corresponding -dev package.
>
> 2) Install the RPostgresql package, either via install.packages() from
> inside R (but you may need to start R via sudo), or using
>
> sudo R CMD INSTALL RPostgresql_0.1-1.tar.gz
>
> if you downloaded sources.
>
> Hope this helps, Dirk
It does indeed. Thanks Dirk. For some reason, don't know why, I was
going on the "./configure && make && make install" route with the
"raw" sources downloaded from code.google.com. Life is simpler than
that :)
Regards,
PK