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When I am trying to install the RcppArmadillo Bioconductor library in R, it is giving me the following error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [RcppArmadillo.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RcppArmadillo’
* removing ‘/home/nikita/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/RcppArmadillo’

I am using Ubuntu 12.04, R 3.2.5 and g++-5.4. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    $\begingroup$ It can't find gfortran. Is it installed? $\endgroup$
    – kmm
    Nov 28, 2017 at 2:08
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    $\begingroup$ I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is not a question about biology, but rather about software installation. $\endgroup$
    – kmm
    Nov 28, 2017 at 2:08
  • $\begingroup$ In a way you are right. The issue is that this question is more appropriate here rather than on stackoverflow because bioinformaticians are here $\endgroup$
    – Nikita Vlasenko
    Nov 28, 2017 at 2:14
  • $\begingroup$ I tried installing gfortran with sudo apt-get install gfortran but it is already there, so nothing happened. $\endgroup$
    – Nikita Vlasenko
    Nov 28, 2017 at 2:18
  • $\begingroup$ Do you have r-base-dev installed? It should get the necessary headers. $\endgroup$
    – kmm
    Nov 28, 2017 at 2:25

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On Ubuntu 14.04 there is a direct route to installing RcppArmadillo. You could perhaps try the same syntax.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-cran-rcpparmadillo
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  • $\begingroup$ It is giving me Unable to locate package r-cran-rcpparmadillo $\endgroup$
    – Nikita Vlasenko
    Nov 28, 2017 at 3:07
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I found a similar question on stackoverflow and the solution was to create a symlink as described by kevin there:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgfortran.so.3 /usr/lib/libgfortran.so
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    $\begingroup$ This feels like a dirty hack — better fix your GCC installation. $\endgroup$
    – Konrad Rudolph
    Dec 7, 2017 at 11:59

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