On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 10:19 AM Bravington, Mark (Data61, Hobart) <mark.braving...@data61.csiro.au> wrote: > > Excellent, thank you all. Doing "pacman -Syu" before "pacman -S gdb...." did > the trick, and yes it's a different version of gdb compared to what pacman > was previously trying to install. Might be worth updating the RTOOLS40 > documentation to recommend doing -Syu first.
OK I have added a line to the docs. FYI, you can combine the two commands into one: pacman -Sy mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb This will first update the repository index (-y) and the install the package. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel