Hello. I am trying to install RMySQL. My Os is Debian and I have MariaDB installed from the tar package (not deb). After downloading RMySQL, I ran the following commands, and I see DONE. Hoewever, I don't think that the package is installed, because the dbConnect() function cannot be found. Probably I'm not passing R the correct paths, but then what paths should I pass? root@this:/tmp# export PKG_CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql" root@this:/tmp# export PKG_LIBS="-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient" root@this:/tmp# R CMD INSTALL /tmp/RMySQL_0.9-3.tar.gz * installing to library ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’ * installing *source* package ‘RMySQL’ ... ** package ‘RMySQL’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for compress in -lz... yes checking for getopt_long in -lc... yes checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking mysql.h usability... no checking mysql.h presence... no checking for mysql.h... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating src/Makevars ** libs gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql -fpic -O2 -pipe -g -c RS-DBI.c -o RS-DBI.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql -fpic -O2 -pipe -g -c RS-MySQL.c -o RS-MySQL.o gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o RMySQL.so RS-DBI.o RS-MySQL.o -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RMySQL/libs ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading Creating a generic function for ‘format’ from package ‘base’ in package ‘RMySQL’ Creating a generic function for ‘print’ from package ‘base’ in package ‘RMySQL’ ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** installing vignettes ** testing if installed package can be loaded * DONE (RMySQL) Thank you in advance Federico ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.