On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 07:42:08 -0500 Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 29 August 2021 at 08:06, Michael Mahoney wrote: > | Forgive me if I'm missing something here, but do you need to install > | from source or do you just need R 4.1.0? > | > | If the latter, my understanding is that you should be able to get R > | version 4.1.0 on Ubuntu distributions via: > > An even easier alternative is to just run a pre-made Docker version, > and then run your local package tests in that. Sounds like a Good Idea, but oh God. It's daunting. I have no idea what Docker is, or how to use it .... Did some web searching, and found *some* instructions. Started off by looking at the instructions for installing Docker on Ubuntu. Did the update step and the set-up-repository step. That seemed to go OK. Then I came to the "Add Docker’s official GPG key:" step. Issued the specified command > curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg > --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg And of course all hell broke loose. Since curl is involved. I got: > curl: /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required > by curl) > curl: symbol lookup error: curl: undefined symbol: curl_mime_free, version > CURL_OPENSSL_4 > gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. So I'm back to the fact that my system is stuffed w.r.t. curl, but I have no idea how to track down what's wrong. :-( cheers, Rolf -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
