R SIG Debian - Mar 2013 - configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available

Hi everyone,
I am trying to install R.2.15.3 from the source code obtained from
http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz  in my Debian version:
Squeeze box.

In order to have multiple versions of R in my system, I gave this command to
configure.

./configure --prefix=/opt/R2.15.3/

Subsequently, I got two warnings and one error message such as the following:

configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of vignettes and help pages
configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available

Could someone direct me with a solution to the above issues. From the error
messages, I can understand that I am not having the required X11 headers/libs,
so what packages in debian squeeze should I have to install for the error
messages to disappear during compilation of R source code.

Thank you

-Sathish

Hi Sathish,

You can ask Debian to install all the build dependencies for a given
source package like so:

sudo apt-get build-dep r-base

Does that help?

TIM

On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 03:56 +0000, Srinivasan, Sathish K
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to install R.2.15.3 from the source code obtained from
http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz  in my Debian version:
Squeeze box.
> 
> In order to have multiple versions of R in my system, I gave this command
to configure.
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/R2.15.3/
> 
> Subsequently, I got two warnings and one error message such as the
following:
> 
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of vignettes and help
pages
> configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not
available
> 
> Could someone direct me with a solution to the above issues. From the
> error messages, I can understand that I am not having the required X11
> headers/libs, so what packages in debian squeeze should I have to
> install for the error messages to disappear during compilation of R
> source code.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> -Sathish
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
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Tim Booth <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk>
NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre 

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Maclean Bldg, Benson Lane
Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford, England
OX10 8BB 

http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk
+44 1491 69 2705

Hi Tim,
It works!

I did these steps in order to build the r-base dependencies and compile the
source code.

su 
apt-get build-dep r-base
./configure --prefix=/opt/R2.15.3
make
make install

build-dep is a nice feature of debian apt-get management utility. The manual for
apt-get gives a concise description of the build-dep option.

Thanks a ton!

-Sathish
________________________________________
From: r-sig-debian-bounces at r-project.org [r-sig-debian-bounces at
r-project.org] On Behalf Of Tim Booth [tbooth at ceh.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 5:45 AM
To: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11
headers/libs are not available

Hi Sathish,

You can ask Debian to install all the build dependencies for a given
source package like so:

sudo apt-get build-dep r-base

Does that help?

TIM

On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 03:56 +0000, Srinivasan, Sathish K
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to install R.2.15.3 from the source code obtained from
http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz  in my Debian version:
Squeeze box.
>
> In order to have multiple versions of R in my system, I gave this command
to configure.
>
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/R2.15.3/
>
> Subsequently, I got two warnings and one error message such as the
following:
>
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of vignettes and help
pages
> configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not
available
>
> Could someone direct me with a solution to the above issues. From the
> error messages, I can understand that I am not having the required X11
> headers/libs, so what packages in debian squeeze should I have to
> install for the error messages to disappear during compilation of R
> source code.
>
> Thank you
>
> -Sathish
>
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Debian mailing list
> R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
--
Tim Booth <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk>
NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Maclean Bldg, Benson Lane
Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford, England
OX10 8BB

http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk
+44 1491 69 2705

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On 21 March 2013 at 23:56, Srinivasan, Sathish  K wrote:
| Hi everyone,
| I am trying to install R.2.15.3 from the source code obtained from
http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz  in my Debian version:
Squeeze box.

That should exist pre-build.  Did you read

       http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/

and indeed 

       http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/squeeze-cran/

contains 2.15.3 for squeeze.
 
| In order to have multiple versions of R in my system, I gave this command to
configure.
| 
| ./configure --prefix=/opt/R2.15.3/
| 
| Subsequently, I got two warnings and one error message such as the following:
| 
| configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
| configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of vignettes and help pages
| configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not
available
| 
| Could someone direct me with a solution to the above issues. From the error
messages, I can understand that I am not having the required X11 headers/libs,
so what packages in debian squeeze should I have to install for the error
messages to disappear during compilation of R source code.

Tim already helped you with this. In essence, you just misread the error
message.

But you should not have to build this by hand unless you really need to (and
know how to).

Dirk

-- 
Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com

Hi Dirk,
Thanks for the reply.
I read the link for pre-builds before I posted an email. However, I did not know
the way to configure the installation directory using apt-get utility. This is
the only reason, why I chose to build and compile the source package where I can
configure the installation directory using --prefix option or by passing the
directory name to the make command. Do have any suggestion for it please? I
mean, if you use apt-get install, it will override the previous installation of
R, right? My requirement is to hold onto 2 different versions of R in my system.

Also, this is the first time, I used build-dep feature of apt-get utility, so I
have no prior knowledge of building packages for debian.

In one of the stackoverflow answers,
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8343686/how-to-install-2-different-r-versions-on-debian
, you mentioned about "local debian build". What is it actually means?
You refered diff.gz in your following answers. Could you please expound on it in
detail or provide some reading links for it, if possible.

-Sathish
________________________________________
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [edd at debian.org]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 1:46 PM
To: Srinivasan, Sathish  K
Cc: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
Subject: [R-sig-Debian] configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11
headers/libs are not available

On 21 March 2013 at 23:56, Srinivasan, Sathish  K wrote:
| Hi everyone,
| I am trying to install R.2.15.3 from the source code obtained from
http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz  in my Debian version:
Squeeze box.

That should exist pre-build.  Did you read

       http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/

and indeed

       http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/squeeze-cran/

contains 2.15.3 for squeeze.

| In order to have multiple versions of R in my system, I gave this command to
configure.
|
| ./configure --prefix=/opt/R2.15.3/
|
| Subsequently, I got two warnings and one error message such as the following:
|
| configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
| configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of vignettes and help pages
| configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not
available
|
| Could someone direct me with a solution to the above issues. From the error
messages, I can understand that I am not having the required X11 headers/libs,
so what packages in debian squeeze should I have to install for the error
messages to disappear during compilation of R source code.

Tim already helped you with this. In essence, you just misread the error
message.

But you should not have to build this by hand unless you really need to (and
know how to).

Dirk

--
Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com

Hi Dirk,
To understand more about the error message, how would I have to properly
interpret this error message. I checked my standard output obtained while
executing ./configure command. It says, "checking for X... no"

Thanks 
-Sathish
_______________________________________
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [edd at debian.org]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 1:46 PM
To: Srinivasan, Sathish  K
Cc: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
Subject: [R-sig-Debian] configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11
headers/libs are not available

On 21 March 2013 at 23:56, Srinivasan, Sathish  K wrote:
| Hi everyone,
| I am trying to install R.2.15.3 from the source code obtained from
http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz  in my Debian version:
Squeeze box.

That should exist pre-build.  Did you read

       http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/

and indeed

       http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/squeeze-cran/

contains 2.15.3 for squeeze.

| In order to have multiple versions of R in my system, I gave this command to
configure.
|
| ./configure --prefix=/opt/R2.15.3/
|
| Subsequently, I got two warnings and one error message such as the following:
|
| configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
| configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of vignettes and help pages
| configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not
available
|
| Could someone direct me with a solution to the above issues. From the error
messages, I can understand that I am not having the required X11 headers/libs,
so what packages in debian squeeze should I have to install for the error
messages to disappear during compilation of R source code.

Tim already helped you with this. In essence, you just misread the error
message.

But you should not have to build this by hand unless you really need to (and
know how to).

Dirk

--
Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com