[R] installing rgl

[ProfJCNash]

I had this problem this week in Linux Mint (debian/ubuntu based) and 
needed to install some libgl* and libglu* packages. A search for
"rgl  glu.h" and "rgl gl.h" found the appropriate suggestions, though I 
probably installed a couple of unnecessary packages too.

JN

On 2017-01-11 03:14 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11/01/2017 3:03 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 2:55 PM
>> To: Weiner, Michael <weinerm at ccf.org>; r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] installing rgl
>>
>>> On this page
>>>
>>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=294543
>>>
>>> eventually it turned out that a similar problem was fixed by
>>>
>>> yum install libpng-devel
>>
>> Thank you for your response Duncan, unfortunately that didn't help,
>> though I do see in config.log:
>>
>> configure:4429: checking for glEnd in -lGL
>> configure:4454: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -DHAVE_PNG_H
>> -I/usr/include/libpng16  conftest.c -lGL   -L/usr/lib64 -lpng16 -lX11 >&5
>> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/6.2.1/../../../libGL.so when
>> searching for -lGL
>> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /lib/libGL.so when searching for -lGL
>> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libGL.so when searching
>> for -lGL
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL
>>
>> So something else is up
>>
>
> I don't know Fedora at all so I don't know what you'd need to do this,
> but I'd suggest asking to uninstall and reinstall mesa-libGL-devel and
> mesa-libGLU-devel (and maybe libpng-devel).
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> Michael
>>
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