cannot find -lpcre2-8

Question

i am trying to install rjava in Rstudio following libraries show error -lpcre2-8, -lbz2, -lz

Any solution to solve these? Not getting any luck on other sites and there solutions provided by various geeks. System : ubuntu-20.04

error code:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpcre2-8
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 01 '21 at 19:15

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Install needed packages using

sudo apt-get install libpcre2-dev libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev

answered May 01 '21 at 19:15

N0rbert

sudo apt-get install r-cran-rjava try this as well, helps – Nikita Lalwani May 01 '21 at 19:26
When encountering /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llzma: No such file or directory, adding liblzma-dev to the above list as recommended here helps :-) – fdetsch Apr 23 '24 at 14:34

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