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Subject:    Re: [R] configure can't find readline -- but it's there!
From:       Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz () me ! com>
Date:       2011-12-30 17:21:32
Message-ID: BD28FF09-D083-41F9-A552-4EFC0367A1CD () me ! com
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Hi Sam,

It has been almost 3 years since I last used Linux (Fedora), but if memory serves \
using, as root, either:

 yum provides readline.h

or perhaps

 yum search readline

might be possible ways of getting the names of the relevant RPMs in the repos. You \
might have to tweak the 'readline' argument to get it to work (eg. readline* or \
something similar).

The need for the *-devel RPMs is referenced in the R Installation and Administration \
manual (Appendix A) and is a FAQ over the years here.

One other comment, which you may not be aware of. Pre-built R binaries are available \
for RHEL and CentOS via the EPEL:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Adding the EPEL repos to your system would then allow you to install R using yum as \
root:

  yum install R

rather than building from source. R 2.14.0 is there now, however, R 2.14.1 is not yet \
present. I would guess that Tom Callaway et al would be working on that RSN.  
Regards,

Marc

On Dec 30, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Cable, Sam B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI wrote:

> Thanks, Marc.  That did it.  I thought "yum provides" would have been
> smart enough to tell me about any "devel" package, but I guess I have
> something left to learn there.  Thanks.
> 
> --Sam
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:marc_schwartz@me.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:28 PM
> To: Cable, Sam B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] configure can't find readline -- but it's there!
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The typical solution would be to install the readline-devel RPM, which
> is where the header files, etc. would be available. 
> 
> So as root:
> 
> yum install readline-devel
> 
> or if you have sudo enabled:
> 
> sudo yum install readline-devel
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz

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