Am Dienstag, 22. September 2020, 15:19:44 CEST schrieb Rainer M Krug: > 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.
Hi all, yes, this makes sense. I used to provide backports to oldstable on CRAN, but recently I am not running any oldstables systems any more, so I am glad to hear that it's an option for you to just use stable. Johannes > > 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 > > -- > 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 -- Johannes Ranke Wissenschaftlicher Berater 07624 8099027 https://jrwb.de _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian