Hi! Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed to this post, and helped! I agree Ubuntu 12.04 is old and I should update, and fully understand that r-cran-rgdal is difficult to maintain for that version indeed!
So the solution I took finally was to compile gdal from source, and, after running sudo ldconfig, was able to compile rgdal (from sources as well). Thanks again for all the contributions! Matthieu 2014-09-28 0:31 GMT-07:00 Prof J C Nash (U30A) <[email protected]>: > I upgrade too, but with some trepidation. I was an unfortunate victim of a > bad disk space estimator script in the upgrade software (now some years ago > on an early Ubuntu). The Ubuntu folk were apologetic, but ... > > An upgrade that hits the filesystem limit gives one a very unsatisfactory > system. > > John Nash > -- who seems to be the finder of such bugs. > > > > On 14-09-27 04:31 PM, Matt Dowle wrote: > >> On 27/09/14 21:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> >>> On 27 September 2014 at 21:04, Matt Dowle wrote: >>> | On 27/09/14 20:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >>> | The fear may be that a fresh install will be needed (a pain) as >>> >>> But Matt, I never said or implied "fresh install". My exact words, >>> from two >>> emails ago: >>> >>> "I would upgrade, which I do every six months." >>> >>> Upgrade, not "reinstall". >>> >>> | might not work. That's why I switched to a rolling release (LMDE) so >>> >>> Rolling releases rock. Debian pretty much invented this with "testing" >>> which >>> is a rolling release receiving packages from the top (aka "unstable") if >>> (approximatly) no new upload was made, no critical bugs appeared and >>> it is >>> not blocking another packages dependency graph. So in essence "always >>> ten >>> days fresh" (as eg for my R builds). That rocks, and it is getting more >>> recognition now. >>> >>> | I'll never need to upgrade and reinstall and setup all the software I >>> | need and config again. So they tell me. I'll tell you if it's >>> true in >>> | a few years! My /home is mounted on its own partition, so that's >>> not a >>> | pain (but is for users who don't know how to use gparted to do that), >>> | but even then I fear problems if I point a new release to my single >>> | /home and then need to roll back (the new release may have changed >>> files >>> | in ~). >>> | Do you do a fresh install every 6 months or do you upgrade your >>> existing? >>> >>> For one reason or another the majority of my machines (at home and >>> work) are >>> actually running Ubuntu. >>> >>> And I __always__ updated __all of them__ every six months __whenever a >>> new >>> release comes out__. Some of these may now have had over ten >>> upgrades. No >>> issues. I tend to do the auxiliary machines at home first, then my main >>> laptop, then the server and then the machines at work. >>> >>> It. just. works. >>> >>> And is the least amount of work as far as I can tell. >>> >>> Dirk >>> >>> Very interesting. Ok, yep, Matthieu really has no excuse for not >> upgrading then. >> >> Matt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Debian mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian >> > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
