R help - Oct 2005 - Probelms installing package RMySQL (Dominic Senn)

Hi 
I have R 2.2.0 and SUSE 10.0 installed. When I try to install the package
RMySQL I get the error that the library "libz" could not be found.
This is
strange because I find the library "libz.so.1" in the directory
"/usr/lib/".

Can anybody help? Thanks a lot in advance, Dominic

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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Dominic Senn wrote:
> Hi
> I have R 2.2.0 and SUSE 10.0 installed. When I try to install the package
> RMySQL I get the error that the library "libz" could not be
found. This is
> strange because I find the library "libz.so.1" in the directory
"/usr/lib/".
>
> Can anybody help? Thanks a lot in advance, Dominic
We may be able to help if you tell us at what stage in the install process 
this happens and quote the exact message.

Note that you will need libz.so and not just libz.so.1, so it is likely 
you have a development RPM missing.  On FC3

gannet% rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libz.so
zlib-devel-1.2.1.2-3.fc3
gannet% rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libz.so.1
zlib-1.2.1.2-3.fc3


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Make sure you have your environment variable LDFLAGS set to "-L/usr/ 
lib", otherwise I believe the linker doesn't look there.

You can check where R looks in the Makeconf file, under LDFLAGS.

Not too sure though - just slogged through building on a brand new  
Solaris box, and that was my problem. I am sure there are others who  
know FAR more than I.

jeff
On Oct 23, 2005, at 5:00 AM, r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
> [R] Probelms installing package RMySQL (Dominic Senn)