Meenu: You have an elementary Linux setup and configuration problem to understand first, before you worry about configuring and compiling your own R. I agree strongly that this is something that all linux users should learn to do, but compiling R itself is like climbing Mt Everest as your first mountain climb.
So, for whatever Linux us use, join their email support lists. Find out more about how to install packages there. Not all Linux systems use "yum" or "apt", we can't help you with that. SO learn about whatever linux you have and find out if it separately installs packages required for compiling programs. It may even be you have a LInux system without sudo installed, so learn how to install that. After you succeed in compiling something simple, then get serious. My course notes on this: http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/Computing-HOWTO/IntroTerminal-3/terminal-3.pdf On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Meenu Chopra <meenu.bioinf...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks to all > > The main problem with ma linux system is that its not able to install any > software using sudo command. > like i used command yum search libX11 , it shown that yum is not installed > and when i use sudo apt-get install yum > its giving error > E: Unable to locate package yum > same problem with all software. > > even when u use sudo apt-get update it shows error like > > W: Failed to fetch > > http://old.releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz > 404 Not Found > > I am not getting whats wrong with my system > > Please help me out > > > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote: > > > On 05/09/2013 11:06 PM, Meenu Chopra wrote: > > > >> Hiii > >> > >> I am trying to install R-2.15.2 > >> after doing ./configure its showing error: --with-x=yes (default) and > X11 > >> headers/libs are not available > >> > >> and when i am running make its showing > >> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. > >> Even I read the install file also but i am not getting any solution. > >> > >> Hi Meenu, > > The second error is due to the first, so don't worry about it for the > > moment. Since you are compiling, you are probably on a Linux system. Try > > this: > > > > su > > <root password> > > yum search libX11 > > > > <this will produce a list of about 6 packages> > > <if you are on a 32 bit system> > > > > yum install libX11-devel.i686 libX11.i686 libX11-common.noarch > > > > <if you are on a 64 bit system> > > > > yum install libX11-devel.x86_64 libX11.x86_64 libX11-common.noarch > > > > exit > > > > This should get the necessary stuff. You may also have problems with > > "readline". If so, let us know. > > > > Jim > > > > > > -- > Meenu Chopra > Research Associate > Animal Genomics Lab > NDRI, Karnal > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
