Hi, I am working on a Solaris 9 system with version 1.9.0 of R and I'm having problems installing the RBGL package. I have tried to install it using install.packages and R INSTALL. I have tried both the Release 1.4 and developmental package. When I tried install.packages, I got the following error > install.packages("RBGL",contriburl="http://www.bioconductor.org/reposi to ry/release1.4/package/Source") trying URL `http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.4/package/Source/PACK AG ES' Content type `text/plain' length 36771 bytes opened URL .......... .......... .......... ..... downloaded 35Kb trying URL `http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.4/package/Source/RBGL _1 .2.2.tar.gz' Content type `application/x-tar' length 1557850 bytes opened URL * Installing *source* package 'RBGL' ... untarring boost include tree... tar: z: unknown option Usage: tar {txruc@}[vfbFXhiBEelmopwnq[0-7]] [-k size] [tapefile] [blocksize] [exclude-file] [-I include-file] files ... error: configuration failed for package 'RBGL': No such file or directory for reading errors. ** Removing '/home/msib/landej/Rlib/RBGL' When I used the R INSTALL method, I got the same error landej@s2 [~/Rlib] % R CMD INSTALL -l /home/msib/landej/Rlib RBGL_1.3.7.tar.gz * Installing *source* package 'RBGL' ... untarring boost include tree... tar: z: unknown option Usage: tar {txruc@}[vfbFXhiBEelmopwnq[0-7]] [-k size] [tapefile] [blocksize] [exclude-file] [-I include-file] files ... error: configuration failed for package 'RBGL': No such file or directory for reading errors. ** Removing '/home/msib/landej/Rlib/RBGL' I've seen this error reported once before in the BioC listserv archives, but I couldn't find a response to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Jeff Lande Graduate Student Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics University of Minnesota [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

> * Installing *source* package 'RBGL' ... > untarring boost include tree... > tar: z: unknown option > Usage: tar {txruc@}[vfbFXhiBEelmopwnq[0-7]] [-k size] [tapefile] > [blocksize] [exclude-file] [-I include-file] files ... > error: configuration failed for package 'RBGL': No such file or > directory for reading errors. > ** Removing '/home/msib/landej/Rlib/RBGL' It looks like the configure script of RBGL is using 'tar xvzf' to uncompress the boost library code, but your tar doesn't support the 'z' option (which is uncommon these days, but apparently not unheard of).