[ARROW-13505] [R] Installation of Arrow fails on Debian Gnu/Linux

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.0
• Component/s: C++, R
• Labels: Linux debian r
• Environment: Debian Gnu/Linux 11 ; R 4.0.4
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29162
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Amit Ramon
• Created: 30/Jul/21 06:19
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:33
• Resolved: 22/Apr/22 17:15

Description

I'm trying to install Arrow on Debian Gnu/Linux using R 4.0.4. Arrow is not installed, and I tried both `install.packages("arrow")` and the script provided by the Arrow project that contains the `install_arrow()` function.

The installation always fail at some point after lots of compilation with a message

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find /home/amit/tmp/Rtmp54dYjQ/R.INSTALL49a67e7832c7/arrow/libarrow/arrow-5.0.0/lib: file format not recognized

I've tried calling the `install_arrow()` function in the following ways:

 

install_arrow(binary = TRUE, minimal = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)
install_arrow(binary = FALSE, minimal = TRUE, verbose = TRUE) 

I also try to install the Arrow binaries (using the command in [https://arrow.apache.org/install/|}}{{https://arrow.apache.org/install/}}{{]) and then running the above commands again but got the same error.

I'm attaching the log from running the first command above.