Still something wrong. I've uncommented the deb-src lines in sources.list as you suggested (and I thought it couldn't hurt to try --allow-unauthenticated as well) and:
root@limpet:/etc/apt# apt-get update --allow-unauthenticated Hit:1 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise InRelease Hit:3 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease Ign:5 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic/ InRelease Err:6 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic/ Release 404 Not Found [IP: 13.35.146.80 80] Hit:7 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu cosmic-cran35/ InRelease Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/edd/misc/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u/ubuntu bionic InRelease Ign:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rdev/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter3.5/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/teejee2008/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease Err:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rdev/ubuntu bionic Release 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80] Ign:15 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Hit:16 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic/ Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rdev/ubuntu bionic Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. root@limpet:/etc/apt# hankin.ro...@gmail.com hankin.ro...@gmail.com On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:19 PM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3/1/19 9:03 AM, robin hankin wrote: > > OK thanks Tomas, but I get > > > > > > OK~ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base > > Reading package lists... Done > > E: Unable to find a source package for r-base > > OK~ > > It seems you need to enable source code repositories on your system > (and then run apt-get update). > You can enable them in /etc/apt/sources.list, uncomment all lines > starting with deb-src. > > Best > Tomas > > > > > > > hankin.ro...@gmail.com > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:47 PM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalib...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> On 3/1/19 7:10 AM, robin hankin wrote: > >>> thanks for this guys. > >>> > >>> I only compiled pcre myself as a last resort, because of the > >>> ./configure failure. But AFAICS apt-get reports correct > >>> installation: > >>> > >>> OK~/Downloads/R-devel sudo apt-get install r-base-dev > >>> Reading package lists... Done > >>> Building dependency tree > >>> Reading state information... Done > >>> r-base-dev is already the newest version (3.5.2-1cosmic). > >>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > >>> OK~/Downloads/R-devel > >> I would just run this > >> > >> apt-get build-dep r-base > >> > >> that will install all packages needed to _build_ r-base, so including PCRE. > >> > >> Best > >> Tomas > >> > >>> config.log gives me: > >>> > >>> configure:42208: $? = 0 > >>> configure:42208: result: yes > >>> configure:42208: checking for pcre.h > >>> configure:42208: result: yes > >>> configure:42208: checking pcre/pcre.h usability > >>> configure:42208: gcc -c -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include conftest.c >&5 > >>> conftest.c:289:10: fatal error: pcre/pcre.h: No such file or directory > >>> #include <pcre/pcre.h> > >>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >>> compilation terminated. > >>> configure:42208: $? = 1 > >>> configure: failed program was: > >>> | /* confdefs.h */ > >>> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R" > >>> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R" > >>> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3 > >>> > >>> and > >>> > >>> HAVE_UNISTD_H > >>> | # include <unistd.h> > >>> | #endif > >>> | #include <pcre/pcre.h> > >>> configure:42208: result: no > >>> configure:42208: checking pcre/pcre.h presence > >>> configure:42208: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c > >>> conftest.c:256:10: fatal error: pcre/pcre.h: No such file or directory > >>> #include <pcre/pcre.h> > >>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >>> compilation terminated. > >>> configure:42208: $? = 1 > >>> configure: failed program was: > >>> | /* confdefs.h */ > >>> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R" > >>> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R" > >>> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.6.0" > >>> | #define PACKAGE_STRING "R 3.6.0" > >>> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPOR > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> hankin.ro...@gmail.com > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:39 PM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalib...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>>> On 2/25/19 6:25 AM, robin hankin wrote: > >>>>> Hi there, ubuntu 18.04.2, trying to compile R-devel 3.6.0, svn 76155. > >>>>> > >>>>> I am having difficulty compiling R. I think I have pcre installed > >>>>> correctly: > >>>> You can use > >>>> > >>>> apt-get build-dep r-base > >>>> > >>>> to install binary Ubuntu packages needed to build R from source, > >>>> including PCRE, so there should be no need to compile PCRE from source. > >>>> If you need for some special reason to compile PCRE from source, please > >>>> see R Admin Manual, section A.1 on how to configure PCRE. The manual > >>>> also says how to set compilation flags for R to look for headers in > >>>> other directories. Sometimes it helps to search the config.log when > >>>> configure fails. If still in trouble, please report how you built PCRE > >>>> and how you told R where to find it, and the relevant part of > >>>> config.log, to maximize chances people could offer useful advice. > >>>> > >>>> Best, > >>>> Tomas > >>>> > >>>>> OK~/Downloads/R-devel pcretest -C > >>>>> PCRE version 8.41 2017-07-05 > >>>>> Compiled with > >>>>> 8-bit support > >>>>> UTF-8 support > >>>>> No Unicode properties support > >>>>> No just-in-time compiler support > >>>>> Newline sequence is LF > >>>>> \R matches all Unicode newlines > >>>>> Internal link size = 2 > >>>>> POSIX malloc threshold = 10 > >>>>> Parentheses nest limit = 250 > >>>>> Default match limit = 10000000 > >>>>> Default recursion depth limit = 10000000 > >>>>> Match recursion uses stack > >>>>> OK~/Downloads/R-devel > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> But ./configure gives me this: > >>>>> > >>>>> [snip] > >>>>> checking for pcre.h... yes > >>>>> checking pcre/pcre.h usability... no > >>>>> checking pcre/pcre.h presence... no > >>>>> checking for pcre/pcre.h... no > >>>>> checking if PCRE version >= 8.20, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no > >>>>> checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre >= > >>>>> 8.20 library and headers are required > >>>>> OK~/Downloads/R-devel > >>>>> > >>>>> can anyone advise? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> hankin.ro...@gmail.com > >>>>> > >>>>> ______________________________________________ > >>>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
