On 23 March 2016 at 13:50, Alex M wrote: | 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).
Yup. Which from 14.04 requires upgrades to 14.10, then 15.04, then 15.10. In short may _right now_ also just wait for 16.04 LTS. | 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. If you must keep on a version it can also help to __build you own backports__ which by being built locally will match your packages. Explaining how to do that is beyond the scope of this thread which failed over much simpler things. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
