rjags in Ubuntu 10.04
ldconfig worked a treat. Thanks Michael & Dirk - I really appreciate your help.
On 27 May 2010 14:24, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 27 May 2010 at 09:06, Michael Rutter wrote: | | | On 05/27/2010 07:31 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > On 27 May 2010 at 07:15, Michael Rutter wrote: | > | | > | | > | On 05/27/2010 05:23 AM, Scott Brogan wrote: | > |> ?I've not been able to install rjags successfully in Ubuntu 10.04 : | > |> | > |> ?** testing if installed package can be loaded | > |> ?Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rjags', details: | > |> ? ? call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) | > |> ? ? error: unable to load shared library | > |> ?'/home/scott/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11/rjags/libs/rjags.so': | > |> ? ? libjags.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory | > |> ?ERROR: loading failed | > |> | > |> ?I've tried with different versions of both JAGS& ? rjags; lastly with R | > |> ?2.11.0, JAGS 2.1.0,& ? rjags_2.1.0-4. Could anyone help ? | > |> | > | | > | Scott, | > | | > | I also had trouble installing rjags in 10.04. ?I got the same error you | > | did, even though I could see the .so files. ?The fix (I think, I tried | > | lots of things) was to run 'ldconfig', then launch R and install the | > | package. ?Apparently, my jags install did not update the libraries. | > | > Excellent -- bug in my package as I do 'catch-all' package jags (as opposed | > to libjags, libjags-dev, ...) and use packaging default so this got omitted. | > | > Will fix. ?Thanks for catching that, and sorry for any inconvenience caused. | > | > Dirk | > | | I do need to point out that I installed jags from the source files | (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcmc-jags/files/). ?Then I installed | rjags from within R, after I did the 'ldconfig' command. Ack, and my bad -- I should have checked. The packaging is much smarter than I gave it credit for and _does_ of course include a call to ldconfig in its postinst. ?So maybe next time you want to try 'apt-get source -b jags' (after adding a deb-src entry that points to unstable to your /etc/apt/sources.list) ? -- ?Regards, Dirk