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Solving “cannot find xml2-config” on Ubuntu 9.10

I was trying to install some packages in R recently that depended on the XML package. I used the nifty install.packages() command, but I was getting an error:

“cannot find xml2-config”

This error was preventing these other packages from being installed properly. It turns out that I needed to install a library called libxml2-dev. In my case, I am running Ubuntu Linux 9.10, so all I had to go was go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager and install libxml2-dev.

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6 Responses to “Solving “cannot find xml2-config” on Ubuntu 9.10”

maik on December 7th, 2010 at 10:35 am

Thanks a lot, that solved also my similar situation!
Persilone on August 12th, 2011 at 2:33 pm

Thanks a lot.
jlr on August 13th, 2011 at 10:38 pm

Me too – thank you!
vjd on September 19th, 2011 at 2:25 am

Thanks a lot!
Nikolai on October 14th, 2011 at 3:27 am

Thanks a lot, it did really help!!
anon on February 5th, 2012 at 11:17 am

thanks mate!

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