kimyen
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5 years ago @bswhite , libffi is a system dependency.
When an R user run the install.packages() command in R, it executing R code to install other R packages. libffi is not an R package, and will not be installed/ configured at the time install.packages() is ran.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libffi.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
On Windows and Mac, the OS takes care of these low level system dependencies. On Linux environment, the users of the OS have to manage every low level dependencies. It's the OS design. So Linux users should know/learn how to manage these dependencies. At the package level, we do not manage where libffi would be installed already on user's machine. When a user installed this library on Linux, s/he should make it available for other applications to use. Please let us know if you need any help on installing libffi.
If you just need an linux environment with synapser installed, we also provide Dockerfile and Docker images:
brucehoff
Operating system
Ubuntu
Description of the problem
I needed to install libffi in order to install synapser (presumably the broken software dependencies link indicates this). On ubuntu I did:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev
Expected behavior
When I attempted to install synapser install.packages("synapser", repos=c("http://ran.synapse.org", "http://cran.fhcrc.org")) I got the error message: Package libffi was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libffi.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libffi' found
What did you expect to happen?
Output of
sessionInfo()Matrix products: default BLAS: /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so LAPACK: /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libRlapack.so
locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=C.UTF-8
[4] LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=C.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=C.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=C.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=C.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.6.0 tools_3.6.0