Unable to upgrade R: Error: Failed to configure R: tk must be installed with +x11.

[Franco Vaccari]

I think I was caught in this exact situation after upgrading to Sequoia: tk was installed as dependency of some other port without the +x11 variant, and R build failed because of that. I’m quite sure I didn’t request a specific version of either R or tk. Then to build R I’m also quite sure I just made

sudo port install tk +x11

and after that 

sudo port install R

and the build was successful. The current situation after that, shown by port installed, is

  R @4.4.2_0+aqua+builtin_lapack+cairo+gcc14+openmp+tcltk+x11 (active)
  tk @8.6.15_0+quartz
  tk @8.6.15_0+x11 (active)

Ciao

Franco


> On 22 Dec 2024, at 21:13, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How to proceed?
> 
> port installed | grep ' R '
>   R @4.4.1_2+aqua+builtin_lapack+cairo+gcc14+openmp+tcltk+x11
>   R @4.4.1_3+aqua+builtin_lapack+cairo+gcc14+openmp+tcltk+x11
>   R @4.4.1_4+aqua+builtin_lapack+cairo+gcc14+openmp+tcltk+x11
>   R @4.4.2_0+aqua+builtin_lapack+cairo+gcc14+openmp+tcltk+x11 (active)
> 
> port installed | grep ' tk '
>   tk @8.6.14_0+x11
>   tk @8.6.15_0+quartz (active)
> 
> Does this mean that I need to have a tk based on x11 to be active?
> 
> sudo port deactivate tk
> Note: It is not recommended to uninstall/deactivate a port that has dependents as it breaks the dependents.
> The following ports will break:
>  tkdiff @4.2_0
>  tklib @0.7_0
>  R @4.4.2_0
>  py312-tkinter @3.12.8_0
>  py313-tkinter @3.13.1_0
>  maxima @5.47.0_9
> Continue? [y/N]: n
> --->  Cleaning tk
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken Wolcott
> <port_R_failed.log>