unable to install Cairo package under linux

问题

I locally download the package and atempt to install it but I get this error:

    R CMD INSTALL -l /usr/local/lib64/R/library Cairo_1.5-1.tar.gz

I get his error:

   checking for PNG support in Cairo... yes
   checking for ATS font support in Cairo... no
    configure: CAIRO_LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib -lcairo
    checking for library containing deflate... no
     checking whether Cairo programs can be compiled... configure: error: Cannot     
    compile a simple Cairo program. See config.log for details.
    ERROR: configuration failed for package 'Cairo'
   * removing '/usr/local/lib64/R/library/Cairo'

any ideas? thanks

回答1:

I managed to install Cairo on R for linux (version 3.0.2) by first installing the libcairo2 package from terminal:

    sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev

Then, open R and install Cairo using

    install.packages("Cairo")

回答2:

I had to install x11 libraries for Linux and was able to compile Cairo.

回答3:

I have a related issue. I can not install libcairo2-dev

sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libcairo2-dev : Depends: libcairo2 (= 1.15.10-2) but 1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1 is to be installed
                 Depends: libcairo-gobject2 (= 1.15.10-2) but 1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1 is to be installed
                 Depends: libxcb-shm0-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9437246/unable-to-install-cairo-package-under-linux