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

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi,

Am Freitag, 18. September 2015, 15:25:10 schrieb 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.

Not really a typo, just taken from another part of the instructions - you need 
this form of the source line in case you want to compile from the source 
packages corresponding to the backports, i.e. if you want to compile on an 
architecture other than i386, amd64 or armel.

Johannes