Can't Install R 2.7.2 on Kubuntu x86_64

[dplentini]

Hi!

I'm trying to install the current version of the statistics package R (v. 2.7.2) on Kubuntu 8.04 running KDE 4.1. Unfortunately, when I run ./configure the process stops after checking readline/history.h.

I don't know what this means. Can anyone offer some good advice or a roadmap for installation?

TIA

P.S.

I installed R 2.6.2 from Ubuntu's package site, but the current version has some new features and improvements I'd like to use.

[nowshining]

Re: Can't Install R 2.7.2 on Kubuntu x86_64

please post the output of the ./configure in whole or at around where it stops, otherwise we may be unable to help u....

[dplentini]

Re: Can't Install R 2.7.2 on Kubuntu x86_64

please post the output of the ./configure in whole or at around where it stops, otherwise we may be unable to help u....

Here's about where it seems to crap out:

checking if gfortran supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gfortran linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for cos in -lm... yes
checking for sin in -lm... yes
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking readline/history.h usability... no
checking readline/history.h presence... no
checking for readline/history.h... no
checking readline/readline.h usability... no
checking readline/readline.h presence... no
checking for readline/readline.h... no
checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
checking for main in -lncurses... no
checking for main in -ltermcap... no
checking for main in -ltermlib... no
checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
checking for history_truncate_file... no
configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available


Until that point the answers to the questions are almost all "yes", and things are purring along.

[nowshining]

Re: Can't Install R 2.7.2 on Kubuntu x86_64

u are missing the readline development files - anytime it asks for any libs, headers, u will ned to apt-get install the needed development files then do a ./configure again until u don't get any errors..

from a gutsy box readline dev files are shown to be...

libreadline-dev

[dplentini]

Re: Can't Install R 2.7.2 on Kubuntu x86_64

u are missing the readline development files - anytime it asks for any libs, headers, u will ned to apt-get install the needed development files then do a ./configure again until u don't get any errors..

from a gutsy box readline dev files are shown to be...

libreadline-dev

Thanks. I found and installed the readline libraries; and the configure and make commands seemed to work ok. But when I try to launch R from bash, I still get the 2.6.2 version. How do I get to 2.7.2?

[dplentini]

Re: Can't Install R 2.7.2 on Kubuntu x86_64

u are missing the readline development files - anytime it asks for any libs, headers, u will ned to apt-get install the needed development files then do a ./configure again until u don't get any errors..

from a gutsy box readline dev files are shown to be...

libreadline-dev

Thanks. I found and installed the readline libraries; and the configure and make commands seemed to work ok. But when I try to launch R from bash, I still get the 2.6.2 version. How do I get to 2.7.2?

I just noticed that 2.7.2 appears after a reboot. Looks like the problem is solved. Thanks again!!

[nowshining]

Re: Can't Install R 2.7.2 on Kubuntu x86_64

ah ur welcome i forgot to add - u may of needed to run sudo ldconfig manually...