Re: [igraph] igraph install on ubuntu failed

[Tamas Nepusz]

Hi Gang,

> I was using Ubuntu 9.10, igraph 0.5.2. I downloaded the igraph source from 
> the website and followed the instructions.
> Is there any other base libs should be installed to UBuntu before I make 
> install this?
No; I just installed a clean Ubuntu 9.10 in a virtual machine, launched a 
console, apt-get installed build-essential and libxml2-dev, downloaded the 
igraph tarball, extracted it, did the usual ./configure && make dance and it 
worked. It seems that there is a problem with your local setup; if the machine 
was upgraded recently, make sure you start with a clean igraph source tree 
(that was just extracted from the tarball) to make sure that no files are left 
there from a previous compilation. Also, try apt-get installing build-essential 
in case your machine is missing some essential development component.

By the way, why don't you try using the precompiled igraph packages for Ubuntu? 
See the following URL:

http://launchpad.net/~igraph/+archive/ppa

-- 
Tamas