Hi, Am Freitag, 18. September 2015, 15:25:10 schrieb George N. White III: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:35 AM Francois-Xavier Jollois < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everybody > > > > I try to update R 3.1.1 to R 3.2.2 on a Debian Jessie (8.2) server. I > > try to do the following steps : > > > > - Adding "deb-src http://cran.irsn.fr/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/" > > to /etc/apt/sources.list > > The instructions (today) say to add: > > "deb http://cran.irsn.fr/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/" > > Not "deb-src ..." -- Could have been a typo that was since corrected.
Not really a typo, just taken from another part of the instructions - you need this form of the source line in case you want to compile from the source packages corresponding to the backports, i.e. if you want to compile on an architecture other than i386, amd64 or armel. Johannes _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

