I would like to be able to install the rstan package from binaries (without compiling from source). This blog post by Dirk Eddelbuettel has some clear instructions that should enable me to do exactly that. However I get the following error message when I try and install RStan. Here are the commands I used.
docker run --rm -ti rocker/r-ubuntu:18.04 bash
apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade -y
apt-get install -y r-cran-rstan
This produces the following error message.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
r-cran-rstan : Depends: r-cran-v8 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Installing the R tidyverse package using Dirk's instructions works fine. I am working on a Ubuntu OS within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL-2).
These things can happen -- the best best is to then try
sudo apt install r-cran-v8
which reveals r-cran-node64 is required but not available.
I work much more with 20.04 than 18.04 so I don't what is going on here. I would recommend asking on the r-sig-debian list if anybody else has seen this.
PS And if you try 20.04 instead it works there.
I want to install jsoncpp
Instructions to reproduce:
Install both meson (which requires Python3) and ninja.
When I run sudo apt-get install meson ninja I get the following results:
$ sudo apt-get install meson ninja
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
meson : Depends: ninja-build but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I am trying to install ninja which removes meson, and installing meson removes ninja, with the above error. Does anyone know what to do about this?
The correct Debian package for the ninja build system is ninja-build.
sudo apt-get install meson ninja-build
When I install a fcitx related package an error show that qtbase-abi-5-5-1 is needed but not installed.
wsx#wsx:~/Downloads$ sudo apt install ./fcitx-frontend-qt5-rstudio_1.0.5-1ubuntu1~qt542_amd64.deb ./libfcitx-qt5-1-rstudio_1.0.5-1ubuntu1~qt542_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'fcitx-frontend-qt5-rstudio' instead of './fcitx-frontend-qt5-rstudio_1.0.5-1ubuntu1~qt542_amd64.deb'
Note, selecting 'libfcitx-qt5-1-rstudio' instead of './libfcitx-qt5-1-rstudio_1.0.5-1ubuntu1~qt542_amd64.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fcitx-frontend-qt5-rstudio : Depends: qtbase-abi-5-5-1 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I tried using command sodu apt install qtbase-abi-5 to find the package but failed. I then download the .deb package from https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/16.04/ubuntu-updates-main-amd64/libqt5core5a_5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5_amd64.deb.html but it was not work, the page show that this .deb package provide the qtbase-abi-5 package. Interestingly, I can find few information about this error by google. Some info from Ask ubuntu forum say that it seems the qtbase-abi-5 is not included in libqt5core5a.
I don't know how to fix it. Can you give me some suggestion or some link which do can download qtbase-abi-5 ?
Thanks #GAD3R for your answer, I am sorry that it fails.
wsx#wsx:~$ sudo apt-cache search qtbase-abi
libqt5core5a - Qt 5 core module
wsx#wsx:~$ sudo apt install libqt5core5a
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libqt5core5a is already the newest version (5.9.1+dfsg-10ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
wsx#wsx:~$ sudo apt install ./Downloads/fcitx-frontend-qt5-rstudio_1.0.5-1ubuntu1~qt542_amd64.deb ./Downloads/libfcitx-qt5-1-rstudio_1.0.5-1ubuntu1~qt542_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'fcitx-frontend-qt5-rstudio' instead of './Downloads/fcitx-frontend-qt5-rstudio_1.0.5-1ubuntu1~qt542_amd64.deb'
Note, selecting 'libfcitx-qt5-1-rstudio' instead of './Downloads/libfcitx-qt5-1-rstudio_1.0.5-1ubuntu1~qt542_amd64.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fcitx-frontend-qt5-rstudio : Depends: qtbase-abi-5-5-1 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Can anyone run following commands successfully?
$ wget http://ikuya.info/tmp/fcitx-qt5-rstudio-qt542.tar.gz
$ tar xf fcitx-qt5-rstudio-qt542.tar.gz
$ sudo apt install ./fcitx-frontend-qt5-rstudio_1.0.5-1ubuntu1~qt542_amd64.deb ./libfcitx-qt5-1-rstudio_1.0.5-1ubuntu1~qt542_amd64.deb
The package libqt5core5a provide qtbase-abi-5-5-1.
apt-cache search qtbase-abi
libqt5core5a - Qt 5 core module
To install the qtbase-abi-5-5-1 , run the following command :
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt install libqt5core5a
I can install http just by call 'apt-get install http' But I get the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package http
I also tried 'sudo apt-get install http'. no luck.
My system is ubuntu 12.04.
Try this command:
sudo apt-get install apache2
The httpd package comes under the name of apache2 in Ubuntu.
The package name is httpd. so,
sudo apt-get install httpd
should work.
I am trying to install the package mvoutlier but following error occurs during installation:
install.packages("mvoutlier")
configure: error: missing required header GL/gl.h
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’
* removing ‘/home/sam/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library /2.15/rgl’
ERROR: dependency ‘rgl’ is not available for package ‘compositions’
* removing ‘/home/sam/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/compositions’
ERROR: dependency ‘compositions’ is not available for package ‘mvoutlier’
* removing ‘/home/sam/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/mvoutlier’
After that I have install the rgl package successfully, then I tried to install the compositions package then the again same error occurs. Then I have again tried to install the mvoutlier package the same error occurs.
Can anyone let me know how I can resolve this problem. Thanking you in advance.
I suspect you are running Ubuntu 12.04.I think you're going to find that this works for the GL/gl.h problem:
install these at the regular old terminal, ie pretend R doesn't exist for now:
libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev
You might get the following error later (in R) because of a tcl b****/gripe/complaint:
Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTcl, ...), class = "tclObj") :
[tcl] can't find package BWidget.
To fix this problem, if you have it:
sudo apt-get install bwidget
These are not R problems. They are OS problems!
I ran into the same issue in between others on a Ubuntu based Linux distro (Linux Mint). Here I will share the worklog I'd done to fix it.
The full fix was:
apt-get install libx11-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev
Worklog
The first error was related to missing devel libraries of X11:
configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
I fixed it installing:
apt-get install libx11-dev
However, after fix the issue, I felt into a new one like this one:
configure: error: missing required header GL/gl.h
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’
I checked the library on the repository:
# dpkg -S /usr/include/GL/gl.h
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/include/GL/gl.h
To fix this issue, install :
apt-get install mesa-common-dev
Then, I was prompt by a new error:
configure: error: missing required header GL/glu.h
To fix the issue, install the libglu1 devel libraries:
apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev
configure: error: missing required header GL/gl.h
normally means you haven't installed the -dev version of a package, in this case GL.
On my system, GL/gl.h is owned by mesa-common-dev
$ dpkg -S /usr/include/GL/gl.h
mesa-common-dev: /usr/include/GL/gl.h
which would have been installed with apt-get install mesa-common-dev or via some GUI magic.
On Ubuntu 16.04, I solved this problem (during rgl package installation) with sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev
the current fedora package manager will fail to find these libraries as shown. Instead you need to do
sudo dnf install mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel
Based on the work breakdown by 3manuek, I figured only the libglu1-mesa-dev library was needed in ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and it worked.
On, RHEL, sudo yum install mesa-libGLU-devel worked.
I encountered an equivalent problem when testing a package that required 'rgl' on Travis. The problem is that the operating system lacks the necessary GL files on which the 'rgl' package draws.
A thread at R-forge offers the ingenious solution of running apt-get install r-cran-rgl, which will pull in any of the GL dependencies not already present on the operating system. This seems simpler than second-guessing which specific dependency is missing, and it remains possible to install a more recent version of 'rgl' if required.