typo in R FAQ: sources.list entry for debian 'stable' backports
Dan Davison writes:
The R FAQ at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Are-there-Unix-binaries-for-R_003f advises the use of the following /etc/apt/sources.list entry
deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian stable . I think that this is missing a forward slash after the word 'stable'.
From man sources.list:
[...] distribution can specify an exact path, in which case the components must be omitted and distribution must end with a slash (/) [...]
And empirically:
dd:/home/dan# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian stable dd:/home/dan# apt-get update E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
versus
dd:/home/dan# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian stable/
dd:/home/dan# apt-get update Get:1 http://cran.R-project.org stable/ Packages [3155B] Get:2 http://cran.R-project.org stable/ Release [71B] Fetched 3226B in 0s (5206B/s) Reading Package Lists... Done
Dan, Thanks, fixed. [Hmm, I thought I had tried this when I added the entry ...] Best -k