On Sun 08 Feb 2015 at 18:45:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > Installed Debian > Installed Emacs24.4 from backports > Installed R from debian CRAN vide instructions from CRAN site > Installed Rstudio.deb community edition from Rstudio site > While installing packages via Rstudio, lCurl fails due to the error I > documented in prior posts > > You and Brian now recommend libcurl4-* from backports which will > download a boatload of other stuff just to get this swirl/Lcurl > package working. > > 1. Do I have to uninstall & reinstall the cran packages, Rstudio before > proceeding? And this needs to be done from backports?
No uninstallation is necessary when you get libcurl4-openssl-dev from backports. > 2. Will this impact Rstudio installation if the R install is from > backports? You may have more confidence in the outcome if you read and noted what is said about backports on the rstudio site. I believe the answer is "no". > 3. And if I do get the above working, how will my planned upgrade to > Jessie affect the installed packages from backports. Packages originally from the Debian Wheezy and backports will simply be upgraded. The rstudio site mentions a new Jessie cran archive. > I think I'm confused whether I should remember that some bits of > software are from backports and it's incumbent on me to track all this > while upgrading to Jessie or installing anything else from stable. I > really don't want to do that and if Debian takes care of the magic in > the background, that'd be wonderful. Change "wheezy" to "jessie" in sources.list for all archives. Update, upgrade and finally dist-upgrade with apt-get. This is all the magic you require. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/09022015132406.525649a33...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk