[lnkForumImage]
TotalShareware - Download Free Software
Confronta i prezzi di migliaia di prodotti.
Asp Forum
 Home | Login | Register | Search 


 

Forums >

comp.lang.ruby

Installation problem with rsruby

Axel Etzold

7/15/2007 7:47:00 PM

Dear all,

I am having problems installing rsruby, the bindings for the
R statistical language.
I am on an OpenSuSE 10.2, 64 bit system.
It looked at first that everything in the
installation went smoothly, ie the installation of R
itself from binaries, and the installation of rsruby
(I tried both the gems and the source code, successively),
following the instructions on sciruby

http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/Rub... .

But when I try to run some code, as in the example provided
on that page, I get:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/rsruby.so: libRblas.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/rsruby.so (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rsruby.rb:2
from r001.rb:2:in `require'
from r001.rb:2

'ls' tells me that the file is there...
I have tried appending the path, setting symbolic links,
no result.

What's going wrong? Why don't I see it?

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,

Axel
7 Answers

Tim Hunter

7/15/2007 7:59:00 PM

0

Axel Etzold wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am having problems installing rsruby, the bindings for the
> R statistical language.
> I am on an OpenSuSE 10.2, 64 bit system.
> It looked at first that everything in the
> installation went smoothly, ie the installation of R
> itself from binaries, and the installation of rsruby
> (I tried both the gems and the source code, successively),
> following the instructions on sciruby
>
> http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/Rub... .
>
> But when I try to run some code, as in the example provided
> on that page, I get:
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/rsruby.so: libRblas.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/rsruby.so (LoadError)
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rsruby.rb:2
> from r001.rb:2:in `require'
> from r001.rb:2
>
> 'ls' tells me that the file is there...
> I have tried appending the path, setting symbolic links,
> no result.
>
> What's going wrong? Why don't I see it?
>
I hate this message. It's very confusing. The loader is complaining that
it has loaded rsruby.so, but rsruby.so needs libRblas.so and the loader
can't find libRblas.so.

Probably you have installed libRblas.so in /usr/local/lib. Make sure you
have /usr/local/lib (or whatever directory libRblas.so is in) in your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Check out man ld.so(8) for more information about
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

--
RMagick OS X Installer [http://rubyforge.org/project...]
RMagick Hints & Tips [http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?for...]
RMagick Installation FAQ [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/instal...]

Axel Etzold

7/15/2007 8:36:00 PM

0

Dear Tim,

> Dear all,
>
> I am having problems installing rsruby, the bindings for the
> R statistical language.
> I am on an OpenSuSE 10.2, 64 bit system.
> It looked at first that everything in the
> installation went smoothly, ie the installation of R
> itself from binaries, and the installation of rsruby
> (I tried both the gems and the source code, successively),
> following the instructions on sciruby
>
> http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/Rub... .
>
> But when I try to run some code, as in the example provided
> on that page, I get:
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/rsruby.so: libRblas.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/rsruby.so (LoadError)
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rsruby.rb:2
> from r001.rb:2:in `require'
> from r001.rb:2
>
> 'ls' tells me that the file is there...
> I have tried appending the path, setting symbolic links,
> no result.
>
> What's going wrong? Why don't I see it?
>
> I hate this message. It's very confusing. The loader is complaining that
> it has loaded rsruby.so, but rsruby.so needs libRblas.so and the loader
> can't find libRblas.so.
>
> Probably you have installed libRblas.so in /usr/local/lib. Make sure you
> have /usr/local/lib (or whatever directory libRblas.so is in) in your
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Check out man ld.so(8) for more information about
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Thank you for your reply. I have libRblas.so installed in
/usr/lib64/R/lib and tried setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to this directory and then also appended it to /usr/local/lib, just in
case ... but this didn't work .. I am still getting the same error.
Also, I came across some warning against setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH at all:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib...

But I'd be prepared to do many things to get R and Ruby to work together
;-(

What else could I do ?

Best regards,

Axel
--
GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS.
Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/g...

Tim Hunter

7/15/2007 8:46:00 PM

0

Axel Etzold wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. I have libRblas.so installed in
> /usr/lib64/R/lib and tried setting
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to this directory and then also appended it to /usr/local/lib, just in
> case ... but this didn't work .. I am still getting the same error.
>
>
Try using ldd to see where rsruby.so thinks libRblas.so is:

ldd rsruby.so

> Also, I came across some warning against setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH at all:
>
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib...

What can I say? I've gotten different advice. I guess you get to make
your own choice.

--
RMagick OS X Installer [http://rubyforge.org/project...]
RMagick Hints & Tips [http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?for...]
RMagick Installation FAQ [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/instal...]

Axel Etzold

7/16/2007 2:14:00 PM

0

Dear Tim,

thanks again for replying.
This is what i get:

dhcppc1:/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux # ldd -d rsruby.so
undefined symbol: rb_eRuntimeError (./rsruby.so)
undefined symbol: rb_eNoMethodError (./rsruby.so)
undefined symbol: rb_eArgError (./rsruby.so)
undefined symbol: rb_cObject (./rsruby.so)
libR.so => /usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so (0x00002b1d9fbc7000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b1da017f000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00002b1da0383000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002b1da05bd000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b1da0813000)
*** libRblas.so => /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so (0x00002b1da0b55000)
libgfortran.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libgfortran.so.1 (0x00002b1da0da8000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002b1da103f000)
libreadline.so.5 => /lib64/libreadline.so.5 (0x00002b1da124d000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000)
libncurses.so.5 => /lib64/libncurses.so.5 (0x00002b1da148c000)



axel@dhcppc1:/usr/lib64/R/lib> ldd -d libRblas.so
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b0b54305000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000)

at first, libRblas.so was not found in the line marked with (***), but
I managed to get it found by passing it as an option in the installation
process.

How can I make a dynamic dependency between libRblas.so and rsruby.so ?
I couldn't find any documentation on flags at the time of installation.

Thanks for your help again.

Best regards,

Axel
--
Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört?
Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mult...

Tim Hunter

7/16/2007 9:30:00 PM

0

Axel Etzold wrote:
> How can I make a dynamic dependency between libRblas.so and rsruby.so ?
> I couldn't find any documentation on flags at the time of installation.
>
I don't know. Probably you're going to need to get in touch with the
rsruby developers.

--
RMagick OS X Installer [http://rubyforge.org/project...]
RMagick Hints & Tips [http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?for...]
RMagick Installation FAQ [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/instal...]

Alex Gutteridge

7/17/2007 1:15:00 AM

0

On 17 Jul 2007, at 06:29, Tim Hunter wrote:

> Axel Etzold wrote:
>> How can I make a dynamic dependency between libRblas.so and
>> rsruby.so ?
>> I couldn't find any documentation on flags at the time of
>> installation.
>>
> I don't know. Probably you're going to need to get in touch with
> the rsruby developers.

Hi Axel,

I'm the developer of RSRuby, sorry to see you've been having trouble.
I don't seem to have libRblas.so on my machine (Ubuntu), so I'm not
sure what is causing the issue you're having. What version of R (and
RSRuby) did you install? Feel free to email me off-list if you like -
though I am away from work for the next week so replies may be slow.

Alex Gutteridge

Bioinformatics Center
Kyoto University

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

7/17/2007 1:37:00 AM

0

Alex Gutteridge wrote:
> On 17 Jul 2007, at 06:29, Tim Hunter wrote:
>
>> Axel Etzold wrote:
>>> How can I make a dynamic dependency between libRblas.so and rsruby.so ?
>>> I couldn't find any documentation on flags at the time of installation.
>>>
>> I don't know. Probably you're going to need to get in touch with the
>> rsruby developers.
>
> Hi Axel,
>
> I'm the developer of RSRuby, sorry to see you've been having trouble. I
> don't seem to have libRblas.so on my machine (Ubuntu), so I'm not sure
> what is causing the issue you're having. What version of R (and RSRuby)
> did you install? Feel free to email me off-list if you like - though I
> am away from work for the next week so replies may be slow.
>
> Alex Gutteridge
>
> Bioinformatics Center
> Kyoto University
>
>
>
>
I just installed it from the Gem repository on Gentoo Linux with no
problems, once I set R_HOME=/usr/lib/R. Gentoo builds all three of (in
/usr/lib/R/lib) libRblas.so, libRlapack.so and libR.so, and everything
worked. I don't remember what Ubuntu/Debian do, but quite a bit of CRAN
is in the Debian repositories thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel.

I usually build R from source on everything but Gentoo (where it's built
from source by default) and Windows (where building R from source
requires a finicky and demanding tool set and patience I don't possess)
anyhow, so I know where everything is and can specify that everything I
need gets built.