Configure: error: geos-config not found or not executable.

Knowing that the package rgeos, from the R language, requieres a prior installation of geos libraries, I installed, both, libgeos and libgeos-c1 (3.2.2), using the synaptic installer in my Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit) machine.

Then I tried to install rgeos directly from the R console, and it issued a message in the sense that geos-config was not found. The output is as follows:

> install.packages("rgeos") Installing package(s) into ‘/home/checo/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) also installing the dependency ‘sp’ probando la URL '//cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/sp_1.0-9.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 882102 bytes (861 Kb) URL abierta ================================================== downloaded 861 Kb probando la URL '//cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/rgeos_0.2-19.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 221471 bytes (216 Kb) URL abierta ================================================== downloaded 216 Kb * installing *source* package ‘sp’ ... ** package ‘sp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c R centroid.c -o Rcentroid.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c gcdist.c -o gcdist.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c init.c -o init.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c pip.c -o pip.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c pip2.c -o pip2.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c sp_xports.c -o sp_xports.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c surfaceArea.c -o surfaceArea.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O3 -pipe -g -c zerodist.c -o zerodist.o gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o sp.so Rcentroid.o gcdist.o init.o pip.o pip2.o sp_xports.o surfaceArea.o zerodist.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR installing to /home/checo/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/sp/libs ** R ** data ** demo ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** installing vignettes ‘intro_sp.Rnw’ ‘over.Rnw’ ** testing if installed package can be loaded * DONE (sp) * installing *source* package ‘rgeos’ ... ** package ‘rgeos’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked configure: CC: gcc -std=gnu99 configure: CXX: g++ configure: rgeos: 0.2-17 checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... no configure: svn revision: 394 checking geos-config usability... ./configure: line 1385: geos-config: command not found no configure: error: geos-config not usable ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgeos’ * removing ‘/home/checo/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/rgeos’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘rgeos’ had non-zero exit status

Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know where this file, "geos-config", comes from: should it be generated by the gcc compilations above, or should it be previously installed when the libgeos libraries were intalled?

I learnt, from another machine, that "geos-config" is an executable and that it should be installed in /usr/bin.

Do you have any idea on what's wrong with my procedure?

Thanks,

-Sergio.

Installing the R-package rgeos on linux: geos-config not found or not executable

Questions : Installing the R-package rgeos on linux: geos-config not found or not executable

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I am running R 3.4.1 on gentoo. When i try anycodings_package to install the 'rgeos' package, i get this:

> install.packages("rgeos") Installing package into ‘/home/jody/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL '//stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/src/contrib/rgeos_0.4-2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 255244 bytes (249 KB) ================================================== downloaded 249 KB * installing *source* package ‘rgeos’ ... ** package ‘rgeos’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked configure: CC: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc configure: CXX: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ configure: rgeos: 0.4-2 checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... yes configure: svn revision: 581 checking for geos-config... no no configure: error: geos-config not found or not executable. ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgeos’ * removing ‘/home/jody/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/rgeos’ The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/RtmppEeDps/downloaded_packages’ Warning message: In install.packages("rgeos") : installation of package ‘rgeos’ had non-zero exit status

(The same happens if i try to install rgeos anycodings_package on gentoo with R 3.5.1, and also on Centos anycodings_package 7.5 with R 3.5.1.)

While there is a rgeos/configure which is anycodings_package executable in the tar file mentioned above, anycodings_package there is indeed no geos-config in there.

How can i get the rgeos package installed?

Is there perhaps a binary version which i anycodings_package could download?

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Answers 1 : of Installing the R-package rgeos on linux: geos-config not found or not executable

For Ubuntu (19.10 and likely onward) anycodings_package use:

sudo apt install libgeos-dev

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mRahman

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Answers 2 : of Installing the R-package rgeos on linux: geos-config not found or not executable

I found the solution.

The "rgeos" package depends on libraries anycodings_package you have to install before running R.

In gentoo i had to do:

sudo emerge --ask sci-libs/geos

In CentOS:

sudo yum install geos geos-devel

After installing these libraries i anycodings_package started R and could install the 'rgeos' anycodings_package package without problems

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miraj

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Answers 3 : of Installing the R-package rgeos on linux: geos-config not found or not executable

For Ubuntu 20.04, the solution is:

sudo apt install libgeos-dev

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miraj

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Answers 4 : of Installing the R-package rgeos on linux: geos-config not found or not executable

For Arch/Manjaro:

sudo pacman -S geos

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joy