On 15 July 2020 at 14:03, Paul Teetor wrote: | Dear R-SIG-Debian folks, | | I seem to be chasing my tail, despite having a simple goal: | | - Install R 4.0.2 | - On Ubuntu 20.04 | - For an ARM processor (not Intel/AMD). | | Can someone please suggest a Debian/Ubuntu repository of the required packages (e.g., r-base-core) built for ARM? I can't seem to find one. | | (I can find the r-base-core package for R 3.6.3, but not R 4.0.2, built for ARM.) | | If there is no such Debian/Ubuntu repository, what would you recommend? Build R 4.0 for ARM from source? Use the cool 'rocker' images for R 4.0? Something else? | | Thank you so much for your advice. I must be misunderstanding something. I figured this would be a slam-dunk because (1) R 4.0 is the latest release, and (2) Ubuntu 20.04 is an LTS release, and (3) ARM is a supported architecture, or so I thought. | | Paul | | PS - Yes, the ARM processors in question are a Raspberry Pi cluster. Don't snicker. Hey, it's got 16 cores, 16 GB RAM total, and a | terabyte of space. And it's paid for, no monthly fee.
When I look at the build pages for my packages, eg this one for r-base https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=r-base I see three (3) different arm labels: arm64, armel, armhf. I have no idea what the Pi uses, and never looked closely, but I am at least vaguely aware that there are apparently entire _dedicated_ distros and installers based on the Debian builds. Raspian is one name that comes to mind. Did you try that? Also, one second of Googling leads to: https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm Good luck, keep us posted -- other architectures/platforms can be fun. Dirk (who just installed 20.04 on his daughters "retired / thought dead under a large cup of coffee spilled" macbook air) -- https://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
