[Qgis-user] rpy2 isntallation fails under Ubuntu Jaunty for R 2.9.1

[Nikos Alexandris]

Nikos:

> > To me it seems that _currently_ the source 2.9.1 R fails to support rpy2
> > compilation (or I just compile/install it in the wrong way) and the
> > binaries (deb's) fail to support comilation/installation of "spgrass6".

Carson Farmer wrote:

> If you're going to compile R from source, you need to make sure to
> configure with shared libraries enabled for Rpy2 to work properly. I
> didn't see whether you had done this earlier or not...
> 
>  $ ./configure --enable-R-shlib
>  $ make
>  $ make install

Thanks Carson.

I (just) successfully did that after a lot of searching in the
documentation. Nevertheless, after removing *everything*, the deb's
worked for both the rpy2 and spgrass6 package.

Apologies for the mail-traffic.
Cheers, Nikos