Building R from Sources in Lubuntu

Whenever I tried to install packages in R I got error  "buffer overflow detected" or something like that. Somebody suggested to build R from sources and it was a real pain run the configure file:

Step 1:

Get the compressed R installer from CRAN, untar to a folder and go to that folder.

Step2:

run ./configure --with-readline=no. It will give error, fortran has to be installed by the following command:

sudo apt-get install fort77

Another error comes up which says:

checking whether mixed C/Fortran code can be run

Then put: 

$ sudo mv /usr/lib/libf2c.so /usr/lib/libf2c.so_backup

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libf2c.a /usr/lib/libf2c.so

Then:

sudo apt-get install libX11-dev

sudo apt-get install libxt-dev

Then :

make 

make install etc.