My base is python with R being installed. Thanks to Dirk's message I found an error message saying debian unstable has been added a number of times to my etc/apt/sources.list file. Now I'm trying to find that file and get it edited back to "normal".
Dave On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:37 AM Johannes Ranke <johannes.ra...@jrwb.de> wrote: > Hi Dave and Dirk, > > sorry, I do not understand half of this, as I do not use docker myself. > Buf if > Dirk does not use Debian buster as the basis for his Rocker container, > then > you should probably not try to install the backport to buster. Shouldn't > these > docker containers be there to avoid the need to install R? > > Johannes > > Am Montag, 22. Juni 2020, 19:15:56 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > > Dave, > > > > That's partial information for so hard to work with. One nice aspects > about > > Docker is that if something complex fails, you can try something simpler. > > You appear to have made some assumptions here as to whether you could > pile > > our instructions top on an existing python3 container---and "that > depends". > > Your error messages indicate 'buster' as a release, which is not what I > use > > in for the Rocker r-base container. So you can't just copy and paste. > You > > could however look at Johannes backport to buster, add its repo into to > > your Docker setup and build that. And you can test that step by step. > > Good luck! > > > > Cheers, Dirk > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian