R help - Jul 2003 - configuration error when installing gtkDevice

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Dimitri Giunchi wrote:
> when I try to install gtkDevice on Mandrake Linux 9.1 (R v. 1.7.1), I get
> the following comfiguration error (see below).
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?
Yes.  Do you have the appropriate gtk development RPMs installed?
My current RH8.0 machine did not.

[...]
> * Installing *source* package 'gtkDevice' ...
> checking for gtk-config... no
> checking for gtk12-config... no
> ERROR: Cannot find gtk-config.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gtkDevice'
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Dimitri Giunchi <dgiunchi at discau.unipi.it>
wrote:
> when I try to install gtkDevice on Mandrake Linux 9.1 (R
> v. 1.7.1), I get the following comfiguration error (see
> below).
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?
> Any hints are greatly appreciated.
>
> [...]
> 
> trying URL
`http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/gtkDevice_0.5-3.tar.gz'
> Content type `application/x-tar' length 41535 bytes
> opened URL
> .......... .......... .......... ..........
> downloaded 40Kb
> 
> * Installing *source* package 'gtkDevice' ...
> checking for gtk-config... no
> checking for gtk12-config... no
> ERROR: Cannot find gtk-config.

The ./configure script could not find gtk-config, as stated
in the error message.  Hint: you may need to install that
tool for the script to find it on your system. A google
search will give you the directions to the right rpm
package(s).

-- 
Philippe

Dear all,

when I try to install gtkDevice on Mandrake Linux 9.1 (R v. 1.7.1), I get
the following comfiguration error (see below).

Has anyone else had this problem?
Any hints are greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Dimitri



install.packages("gtkDevice")
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 111935 bytes
opened URL
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.........
downloaded 109Kb

trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/gtkDevice_0.5-3.tar.gz'
Content type `application/x-tar' length 41535 bytes
opened URL
.......... .......... .......... ..........
downloaded 40Kb

* Installing *source* package 'gtkDevice' ...
checking for gtk-config... no
checking for gtk12-config... no
ERROR: Cannot find gtk-config.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gtkDevice'

When compiling the gtkDevice package, we need the gtk+ development
libraries, i.e. libgtk.so and header files such as gtk.h.  The
error message saying 'Cannot find gtk-config' means that we cannot
locate the script that is used to tell us where the header files
and libraries are located.

So this means that you more than likely don't have the development
libraries on your system.  You will need to ensure that these are
available before installing gtkDevice. There should be
ready-to-install binaries for gtk for the Mandrake packaging system

Then, hopefully all will proceed smoothly.

 D.

Dimitri Giunchi wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> when I try to install gtkDevice on Mandrake Linux 9.1 (R v. 1.7.1), I get
> the following comfiguration error (see below).
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?
> Any hints are greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Dimitri
> 
> 
> 
> install.packages("gtkDevice")
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 111935 bytes
> opened URL
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> .........
> downloaded 109Kb
> 
> trying URL
`http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/gtkDevice_0.5-3.tar.gz'
> Content type `application/x-tar' length 41535 bytes
> opened URL
> .......... .......... .......... ..........
> downloaded 40Kb
> 
> * Installing *source* package 'gtkDevice' ...
> checking for gtk-config... no
> checking for gtk12-config... no
> ERROR: Cannot find gtk-config.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gtkDevice'
> 
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Thank you very much to everybody for the help: now it works fine.

Dimitri



At 08.51 04/07/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>When compiling the gtkDevice package, we need the gtk+ development
>libraries, i.e. libgtk.so and header files such as gtk.h.  The
>error message saying 'Cannot find gtk-config' means that we cannot
>locate the script that is used to tell us where the header files
>and libraries are located.
>
>So this means that you more than likely don't have the development
>libraries on your system.  You will need to ensure that these are
>available before installing gtkDevice. There should be
>ready-to-install binaries for gtk for the Mandrake packaging system
>
>Then, hopefully all will proceed smoothly.
>
>  D.
>
>Dimitri Giunchi wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > when I try to install gtkDevice on Mandrake Linux 9.1 (R v. 1.7.1), I
get
> > the following comfiguration error (see below).
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem?
> > Any hints are greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Dimitri
> >
> >
> >
> > install.packages("gtkDevice")
> > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> > Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 111935 bytes
> > opened URL
> > .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> > .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
> > .........
> > downloaded 109Kb
> >
> > trying URL
`http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/gtkDevice_0.5-3.tar.gz'
> > Content type `application/x-tar' length 41535 bytes
> > opened URL
> > .......... .......... .......... ..........
> > downloaded 40Kb
> >
> > * Installing *source* package 'gtkDevice' ...
> > checking for gtk-config... no
> > checking for gtk12-config... no
> > ERROR: Cannot find gtk-config.
> > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gtkDevice'
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>
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>
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>Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies    office: (908)582-3217
>700 Mountain Avenue, Room 2C-259  fax:    (908)582-3340
>Murray Hill, NJ  07974-2070
>          http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/duncan
Dimitri Giunchi
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