I am trying to build the R package png, the repo says that libpng needs to be available.
I run a Linux Fedora 20 distro
Looks like I have it...
[root@localhost bin]# yum install libpng
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Package 2:libpng-1.6.3-3.fc20.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
But when I try to install it:
> install.packages("png")
Installing package into ‘/home/statquant/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/png_0.1-7.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 24990 bytes (24 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 24 Kb
* installing *source* package ‘png’ ...
** package ‘png’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include `libpng-config --cflags` -fpic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -c read.c -o read.o
/bin/sh: libpng-config: command not found
read.c:3:17: fatal error: png.h: No such file or directory
#include <png.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [read.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘png’
* removing ‘/home/statquant/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.0/png’
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpG5MjG9/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("png") :
installation of package ‘png’ had non-zero exit status
For some R packages you need the corresponding development library to successfully install the R package. In your case this should do what you need
# Do the following in your terminal (not in an R session)
yum install libpng-devel
afterwards you should be able to install the R package
# Do the following in the R console (during an R session)
install.packages("png")
I had the same problem on Ubuntu (16.04) and solved it using
sudo apt-get install libpng-dev
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21800909/cannot-build-r-package-png-fedora-20