[R] Boot R

[Paul Hiemstra]

Cassiano wrote:
> I think I have 'libgfortran'.
> After that I digit 'dpkg -l | grep libgfortran' in terminal, I got this
> message:
>
> ii  libgfortran2                               4.2.4-5ubuntu1                            
> Runtime library for GNU Fortran applications
> ii  libgfortran2-dbg                           4.2.4-5ubuntu1                            
> Runtime library for GNU Fortran applications
> ii  libgfortran3                               4.4.1-4ubuntu9                            
> Runtime library for GNU Fortran applications
> ii  libgfortran3-dbg                           4.4.1-4ubuntu9                            
> Runtime library for GNU Fortran applications
>
> And the error continue:
>
> /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R: error while loading shared libraries:
> libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>   
Cassiano wrote:
After sudo updatedb - nothing

after locate libgfortran | grep so

//usr/lib/libgfortran.so.2
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0.0
/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0.0
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4/libgfortran.so
/
My reply:
The point is that R is expecting /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3 but your 
computer has /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0.0. A trick is to make a 
symbolic link from /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3 to 
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0.0. /usr/lib/libgfortran.so only points to 
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0.0 in that case:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0.0 /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3

This should fix the problem.

cheers,
Paul

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