[R] configuration error when installing gtkDevice

Prof Brian Ripley
Fri, 04 Jul 2003 07:56:43 -0000

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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