On 22 September 2020 at 14:49, Rainer M Krug wrote: | I know this is likely documented somewhere, but I can’t find it. How can I install R > 4.0.0 on Debian 9 Stretch?
That is 'oldstable'. You are making a heroic assumption that "some" volunteer prepared a binary for you. Maybe ... that volunteer needs to be you ;-) ! On a more serious note, doing that is actually very straightforward because Debian packages are so well structured. Download the source package from unstable, unpack it on a Debian 9 machine or container or pbuilder or ... and build it. Learn how to create a package repo and upload it somewhere. I have done so in very small scale with Debian packages I needed [1] and more generally "do it all the time" for the Ubuntu systems as Launchpad makes it so easy. [2] We (in the "royal we" sense) could and should probably think about writing a short and simple paper walking through these steps. Dirk [1] https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ppa [2] https://launchpad.net/~edd links to three repos of mine -- 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