Playwith on Mint

| I am having trouble installing the package playwith on the latest Mint
| "helena",
| running  R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14).
| 
| I suspect it has to do with the GTK library but as far as I can tell there
| is nothing wrong with it.

As Liviu pointed out to you, "running" != "compiling against". You need -dev
packages for the latter.

Also:

| * installing *source* package "cairoDevice"  ...

You can make your live easier by relying on the prebuilt versions:

    $ sudo apt-get install r-cran-cairodevice

(or using aptitude or which frontend your prefer) as Mint should have it as
Debian/Ubuntu do.

Besides that, start trying to understand the error messages from configure.
"'foo' not found" is telling you to install foo.

Hth, Dirk

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