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Updating packages after install of r-base 2.6.2: cant update rgl

Hi Michael,

* Michael Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca> [080409 22:00]:
I suppose you put some CRAN mirror into your /etc/apt/sources.list?
Yes, you need to explicitly upgrade r-base-dev, too, if you want to
install packages from CRAN.
 
...
Ok, I just did this on one of my etch boxes with CRAN R (and X
installed):

  cecking for X... libraries , headers
  checking GL/gl.h usability... yes
  checking GL/gl.h presence... yes
  checking for GL/gl.h... yes
  checking GL/glu.h usability... yes
  checking GL/glu.h presence... yes
  checking for GL/glu.h... yes
  checking for glEnd in -lGL... yes
  checking for gluProject in -lGLU... yes
  configure: creating ./config.status
  config.status: creating src/Makevars

So it works over here... On another box, without OpenGL, it fails, as
one would expect. On a third box, where I have no X installed, it fails, 
too, with exactly the error message you quoted above.

Could you give us the output of

    apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-core

or just tell us if you have Xorg installed?

Best regards,

Johannes