On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:43:52AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 20 August 2018 at 15:29, Eva Myers wrote: > | Hello, > | Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems > | is failing with an error message. > > This can happen. I (with my Debian hat on) had to make 17.11-3 because the > ess package did not behave with Debian untable and Emacs 26.2. It does now. > > Changes can have side effects. Turn out that in this case 16.04 is > affected. Your easiest recourse would be to not use this package, but the > (much older) ESS from 16.04, or an older release (and then put it on 'hold' > to supress updates). > > There will be a newer elpa-ess which may work for you (or not). You could try > these: > > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/elpa-ess_17.11-4_all.deb > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_17.11-4_all.deb > > and you need both. "Works for me" on 18.04. Not tested on 16.04. YMMV.
Works for me on 16.04, thank you so much! Eva. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
