Installing nloptr on Linux

I am trying to install the R package nloptr on a CentOS Linux machine that doesn't have internet connection as follows:

install.packages("/home/ravi/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source")

This command in turn looks for the following file online

http://ab-initio.mit.edu/nlopt/nlopt-2.4.2.tar.gz

However, this fails since there is no internet connection to the machine.

I tried the suggestion from the following stackoverflow post:

trouble with Installing nloptr by locally on Ubuntu

I changed the URL in configure and configure.ac files as follows:

NLOPT_URL="file:///home//ravi//${NLOPT_TGZ}"

However, I get the following error when I try to install the package again:

> install.packages("/home/ravi/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source")
* installing *source* package 'nloptr' ...
files 'configure', 'configure.ac' have the wrong MD5 checksums
ERROR: 'configure' exists but is not executable -- see the 'R Installation and Administration Manual'
* removing '/opt/vertica/R/library/nloptr'
Warning message:
In install.packages("/home/ravi/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz",  :
  installation of package '/home/ravi/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status

Can someone guide me on how to install this R package locally?

Update 1

Based on the suggestion from Dirk on installing nlopt first, I followed the instructions given in the following page:

http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/NLopt_Installation

I installed nlopt as follows :

./configure --enable-shared
make
make install
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/lib

When I tried to re-install nloptr in R, it doesn't look for the nlopt link anymore but throws the following error:

Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
  unable to load shared object '/opt/vertica/R/library/nloptr/libs/nloptr.so':
  /opt/vertica/R/library/nloptr/libs/nloptr.so: undefined symbol:   nlopt_set_maxtime
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing '/opt/vertica/R/library/nloptr'
Warning message:
In install.packages("/home/ravi/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz",  :
  installation of package '/home/ravi/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz' had non-zero exit     status

Update 2

As suggested by Dirk, I looked into the ldconfig command and used the following reference:

http://codeyarns.com/2014/01/14/how-to-add-library-directory-to-ldconfig-cache/

I edited the /etc/ld.so.conf file, added the directory /usr/local/lib which contains the shared library and ran the ldconfig command. This added the relevant shared library as shown below:

libnlopt.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libnlopt.so.0
libnlopt.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libnlopt.so

However, when I tried reinstalling the nloptr package, I still get the same shared object error.

Could someone guide me on the shared library error?

Solution

When you say [t]his command in turn looks for the following file online you only get half the story. Together with Jelmer, the maintainer of the actual nloptr package, I modified the package to do the following:

look for an install libnlopt library, and, if found, use it
if not found fall back to the old behaviour and download the library

So you could simply install nlopt via

 sudo apt-get install libnlopt-dev

(or the equivalent sudo dpkg -i /media/.... pointing to the file from a USB drive etc pp) and then reinstall the nloptr package. It will just work. On my machine:

edd@max:~$ install.r nloptr         ## install.r is in littler
trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 353942 bytes (345 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 345 KB

* installing *source* package ‘nloptr’ ...
** package ‘nloptr’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for pkg-config... yes
configure: Now testing for NLopt header file.
[...]
checking for nlopt.h... yes
configure: Suitable NLopt library found.
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
** libs
g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -O3 -Wall -pipe -Wno-unused -pedantic  -c dummy.cpp -o dummy.o
gcc -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -O3 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -std=gnu99 -c nloptr.c -o nloptr.o
g++ -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o nloptr.so dummy.o nloptr.o -lnlopt -lm -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/nloptr/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (nloptr)

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/downloaded_packages’
edd@max:~$

Note how it compiled only two files from the actual R packages having found the nlopt installation.