[R-sig-Debian] Fwd: Re: r-base installation fails on Ubuntu 14.04

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 23 March 2016 at 13:50, Alex M wrote:
| He was suggesting to upgrade to 15.10 if you needed the newer fortran
| for some reason (or other newer things only in backports or not even there).

Yup.

Which from 14.04 requires upgrades to 14.10, then 15.04, then 15.10.  In
short may _right now_ also just wait for 16.04 LTS.

| I also mostly run LTS versions of Ubuntu, especially in my research
| group where I manage our cloud/servers. Which also matches the computer
| cluster available to me. That said I also stick to the stock packages
| for all the basic underlying libraries like fortran. If for some reason
| I need super new stuff to run a specific tool/analysis that's when I
| spin up a custom VM/Docker to create such an environment.

If you must keep on a version it can also help to __build you own backports__
which by being built locally will match your packages.  Explaining how to do
that is beyond the scope of this thread which failed over much simpler things.

Dirk

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