[R-sig-Debian] Problems with r-cran-rcurl in Trusty and Vivid. (Re: Install R on Ubuntu with libcurl support)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 5 November 2015 at 20:54, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| On 6 November 2015 at 09:14, Charles Plessy wrote:
| | by the way, speaking about the r-cran-rcurl package in Ubuntu, the versions in
| | trusty and vivid are linked by error to the "NSS" flavour of libcurl3 instead
| | of the "OpenSSL flavour", which cause at least problems when using the CRAN
| | devtools package.  A bit more details are available in the Debian bug tracking
| | system (https://bugs.debian.org/786473).  I am not sure if the Ubuntu packages
| | can be easily corrected, but if there is an interest, please let me know and I
| | will try.
| 
| I usually just deploy my helper script 'install.r' (from package little in
| Debian/Ubuntu and now also CRAN) as I prefer my CRAN packages to be fresh.
| The sibbling script 'update.r' then refreshes installed packages against 
| what is on CRAN (but knows to leave apt/dpkg installed packages alone).

Oh, and then there are of course Michael's other repos.  Eg in  the Travis
setup file for the RProtoBuf repo (and package) we use

[...]
install:
  - ./travis-tool.sh install_aptget libprotobuf-dev libprotoc-dev \
                     protobuf-compiler r-cran-rcpp r-cran-runit \
                     r-cran-rcurl r-cran-highlight 
[...]

which gets these packages as (backported) binary deb packages -- for the
older Ubuntu 12.04 release that Travis still deploys.

This relies on

edd at max:~/git/r-travis(master)$ grep ppa scripts/travis-tool.sh 
    sudo add-apt-repository -y "ppa:marutter/rrutter"
    sudo add-apt-repository -y "ppa:marutter/c2d4u"
        sudo add-apt-repository -y "ppa:texlive-backports/ppa"
edd at max:~/git/r-travis(master)$ 

Hope this helps.

Dirk

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