On 22 Sep 2020, at 15:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 22 September 2020 at 14:49, Rainer M Krug wrote:
| I know this is likely documented somewhere, but I can?t find it. How can
| I install R > 4.0.0 on Debian 9 Stretch?>
That is 'oldstable'. You are making a heroic assumption that "some"
volunteer prepared a binary for you.
Maybe ... that volunteer needs to be you ;-) !
On a more serious note, doing that is actually very straightforward
because
Debian packages are so well structured. Download the source package from
unstable, unpack it on a Debian 9 machine or container or pbuilder or ...
and build it. Learn how to create a package repo and upload it somewhere.
I have done so in very small scale with Debian packages I needed [1] and
more generally "do it all the time" for the Ubuntu systems as Launchpad
makes it so easy. [2]
We (in the "royal we" sense) could and should probably think about writing
a short and simple paper walking through these steps.
Dirk
[1] https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ppa
[2] https://launchpad.net/~edd links to three repos of mine
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