[R-sig-Debian] Unable to install R 3.2 on debian jessie

[George N. White III]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:35 AM Francois-Xavier Jollois <
francois-xavier.jollois at parisdescartes.fr> wrote:

> Hi everybody
>
> I try to update R 3.1.1 to R 3.2.2 on a Debian Jessie (8.2) server. I
> try to do the following steps :
>
> - Adding "deb-src http://cran.irsn.fr/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/"
> to /etc/apt/sources.list
>

The instructions (today) say to add:

 "deb http://cran.irsn.fr/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/"

Not "deb-src ..." --  Could have been a typo that was since corrected.


> - Execute :
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
> - And I get this :
> ...
> r-base is already the newest version.
> r-base-dev is already the newest version.
> ...
>
> If i execute : apt-cache policy r-base
> r-base:
>   Installed: 3.1.1-1
>   Candidate: 3.1.1-1
>   Version table:
>  *** 3.1.1-1 0
>         500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> If someone has an idea, I'm really interested.
>
> On Ubuntu 14.04, I have the same problem, but after installing the
> libtiff4 package, I was able to update R to version 3.2.2. But it does
> not work on debian...
>
> FX Jollois
>
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