Message-ID: <56F2FD7C.4090500@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-03-23T20:33:00Z
From: Barnet Wagman
Subject: r-base installation fails on Ubuntu 14.04
In-Reply-To: <56F2F790.3020605@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] r-base installation fails on Ubuntu 14.04
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:07:44 -0700
From: Barnet Wagman <bdwgen at gmail.com>
To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
> Lastly, and please don't take this the wrong way: I think I am helping way
> more people like you who for one reason or other insist on older / frozen
> system like 14.04 but then desire newer software. Simply running _current_
> Ubuntu and upgrading every six months is IMHO much easier.
Are suggesting upgrading to Ubuntu 15 or just running apt-get upgrade or
apt-get dist-upgrade (which I've done). Ubuntu 14.04 is the latest LTS
version, which is probably why a lot of people are not going to 15.
PS Inadvertently sent this to Dirk instead of list. Sorry.
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