Hi Dirk, Thanks for the explamnayion - Debian is running in a VM (and nothing really installed on it) , and I think the easiest is for me just to install Debian 10 and to use that one.
Thanks a lot, Rainer > On 22 Sep 2020, at 15:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > > 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 -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Orcid ID: 0000-0002-7490-0066 Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zürich Office Y34-J-74 Winterthurerstrasse 190 8075 Zürich Switzerland Office: +41 (0)44 635 47 64 Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 email: rainer.k...@uzh.ch rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian