On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 3:51 AM Ivan Krylov <krylov.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > First of all, you mentioned Linux Mint, so you might get better advice > on R-SIG-Debian mailing list. > > On Mon, 4 May 2020 16:15:42 +1200 > Patrick Connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > >There are quite a lot of packages in the repository for Linux Mint > >17.2 with 'pcre' in the name and these are installed: > > >Apparantly the '3' doesn't indicate an updated '2' version > > The funny thing about libpcre3 is that it is the old PCRE1 version, > third ABI-incompatible upgrade of it [*], and libpcre2 (available in > current releases of Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Debian) is supposed to be > the newer PCRE2. > > Linux Mint 17.2 is based on Ubuntu 14.04, which has been released in > April 2014, while PCRE2 has been released in 2015.
Moreover, support for 17.2 ended over a year ago (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint_version_history). I suggest upgrading to a supported version. Best, Ista This might be the > reason why libpcre2 doesn't seem to be available to you (I have tried > searching both repositories, including backports, with no success). > Moreover, Ubuntu 14.04 only has PCRE 8.31, which is too old to work > with R 4.0. The official builds of R 4.0 [**] are not available for > Ubuntu 14.04, either. > > > Suggestions welcome. > > You can try to backport PCRE 8.32 for Linux Mint 17.2 by taking the > source package for 8.31 (apt-get source pcre3), extracting the new > version of PCRE into it and fiddling with it until it builds (see > [***] for more information on that). This is a complicated procedure, > and if an important system component depends on PCRE, you can end up > breaking the system. > > You can also try to install latest PCRE2 from source (./configure; make; > sudo make install) into /usr/local where it shouldn't interfere too much > with the rest of the system. > > Another option could be upgrading to a supported release of Linux Mint > and installing the official binary build from [**]. > > Good luck! > > -- > Best regards, > Ivan > > [*] > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#run-time-shared-libraries > > [**] https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ > > [***] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
