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

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you, Franco.

I just completed those steps.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcottt

On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM Franco Vaccari <fvaccari at me.com> wrote:

> 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>
>
>
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