He was suggesting to upgrade to 15.10 if you needed the newer fortran for some reason (or other newer things only in backports or not even there).
I also mostly run LTS versions of Ubuntu, especially in my research group where I manage our cloud/servers. Which also matches the computer cluster available to me. That said I also stick to the stock packages for all the basic underlying libraries like fortran. If for some reason I need super new stuff to run a specific tool/analysis that's when I spin up a custom VM/Docker to create such an environment. In this case I can understand, 14.04 came from the hardware vendor, so it makes sense to stick with that for now given the support from the company for drivers (hopefully they will also support 16.04). In which case, yes roll back your backported fortran to use the version Ubuntu originally supplied. Thanks, Alex On 03/23/2016 01:33 PM, Barnet Wagman wrote: > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] r-base installation fails on Ubuntu 14.04 > Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:07:44 -0700 > From: Barnet Wagman <bdw...@gmail.com> > To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> > > > >> Lastly, and please don't take this the wrong way: I think I am helping way >> more people like you who for one reason or other insist on older / frozen >> system like 14.04 but then desire newer software. Simply running _current_ >> Ubuntu and upgrading every six months is IMHO much easier. > > Are suggesting upgrading to Ubuntu 15 or just running apt-get upgrade or > apt-get dist-upgrade (which I've done). Ubuntu 14.04 is the latest LTS > version, which is probably why a lot of people are not going to 15. > > > PS Inadvertently sent this to Dirk instead of list. Sorry. > > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
