On Mon, Feb 09 2015,Brian wrote: > On Sun 08 Feb 2015 at 18:45:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >
[snipped 11 lines] >> 1. Do I have to uninstall & reinstall the cran packages, Rstudio before >> proceeding? And this needs to be done from backports? > > No uninstallation is necessary when you get libcurl4-openssl-dev from > backports. That's a relief. > >> 2. Will this impact Rstudio installation if the R install is from >> backports? > > You may have more confidence in the outcome if you read and noted what > is said about backports on the rstudio site. I believe the answer is > "no". This is one "no" I'm happy about. [snipped 7 lines] >> I think I'm confused whether I should remember that some bits of >> software are from backports and it's incumbent on me to track all this >> while upgrading to Jessie or installing anything else from stable. I >> really don't want to do that and if Debian takes care of the magic in >> the background, that'd be wonderful. > > Change "wheezy" to "jessie" in sources.list for all archives. Update, > upgrade and finally dist-upgrade with apt-get. This is all the magic you > require. :) Oh good! Miracles do happen in this time and age. ;) sivaram -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/878ug7aw12....@gmail.com
