config.log will tell you what is missing. But most likely it is X11
headers/libraries in packages like libX11-devel and libXt-devel. (Note
that the R-admin manual does tell you this.)
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Shantanu Unknown wrote:
Hi
Hi all,
I am unable to install R on CentOS5 64 bit machine.
When I do ./configure
I get the message
"checking for X... no
configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available"
from doing a websearch it seems I need to install x11-xorg. But I could not
find it when I