How do I install the R package rgl on Ubuntu 9.10, using R version 2.12.1?

Question

I\'m trying to install the R package rgl on Ubuntu 9.10. I\'m using R version 2.12.1.

I got the following error: \"configure: error: missing required header GL/gl.h\

Answer 1

I had to deal with this problem many times, and this always worked just fine: type in a terminal

sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev

After this I just start R and install the rgl package with the install.packages function