On Mon, 04-May-2020 at 11:03AM -0400, Ista Zahn wrote: |> 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.
Thanks for making that clear -- though I don't relish the hassle of upgrading an OS. I was quite happy with the features of Mint 17.x. [...] -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ 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.