Dirk, I appreciate that you were trying to help, but I would suggest you don't answer a question if you find it irritating or think it is posed by someone who hasn't taken the time to figure things out on his own... others might be able to spare a bit more time and be more patient, however basic the question is. There is a lot of material covered in the page and I found your "read the page" + "we understand" comments dismissive.
With help from Johannes Ranke, I ran the following commands sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list' apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net<http://keys.gnupg.net> --recv-key 6212B7B7931C4BB16280BA1306F90DE5381BA480 This did not work, possibly due to a firewall blocking port 1137 on my computer I resorted to doing a custom installation of openssl and curl and R-3.3.3 was installed successfully, the R ./configure message went from checking if libcurl supports https... no to checking if libcurl supports https... yes Here are the details #remove curl sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove curl #remove openssl sudo apt-get purge openssl #install openssl from http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0e.tar.gz ./config --prefix=/usr/local/openssl --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/openssl/lib make make test sudo make install /usr/local/openssl/bin$ openssl version OpenSSL 1.1.0e 16 Feb 2017 [OpenSSL commands were put together / modified from https://geeksww.com/tutorials/libraries/openssl/installation/installing_openssl_on_ubuntu_linux.php https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Compilation_and_Installation https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/1740 as curl's installation failed without -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/openssl/lib ] #install curl (curl-7.53.1 from https://curl.haxx.se/download.html) ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local/openssl make sudo make install #install R R-3.3.3 from https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/ ./configure make make check make install All the best, Lucio On 4 April 2017 at 18:36, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org<mailto:e...@debian.org>> wrote: On 4 April 2017 at 17:45, Lucio Marcello wrote: | Dear Dirk, | | Do you mean binaries for R-3.3.3? | | I could not find any link on the page you mention | I downloaded R-3.3.3.tar.gz from https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/ The link I gave you is https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian Please read what is on that page. | then ran | ./configure We understand. It is still "wrong" as we have a working prebuilt binary for you. You to get it is described on that page. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org<mailto:e...@debian.org> Inverness College UHI, a partner in the University of the Highlands and Islands www.inverness.uhi.ac.uk Board of Management of Inverness College (known as Inverness College UHI), Scottish Charity No SC021197. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
