R SIG Debian - Nov 2015 - Problems with r-cran-rcurl in Trusty and Vivid. (Re: Install R on Ubuntu with libcurl support)

Hello everybody,

by the way, speaking about the r-cran-rcurl package in Ubuntu, the versions in
trusty and vivid are linked by error to the "NSS" flavour of libcurl3
instead
of the "OpenSSL flavour", which cause at least problems when using the
CRAN
devtools package.  A bit more details are available in the Debian bug tracking
system (https://bugs.debian.org/786473).  I am not sure if the Ubuntu packages
can be easily corrected, but if there is an interest, please let me know and I
will try.

Have a nice day,

Charles

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

On 6 November 2015 at 09:14, Charles Plessy wrote:
| by the way, speaking about the r-cran-rcurl package in Ubuntu, the versions in
| trusty and vivid are linked by error to the "NSS" flavour of
libcurl3 instead
| of the "OpenSSL flavour", which cause at least problems when using
the CRAN
| devtools package.  A bit more details are available in the Debian bug tracking
| system (https://bugs.debian.org/786473).  I am not sure if the Ubuntu packages
| can be easily corrected, but if there is an interest, please let me know and I
| will try.

I usually just deploy my helper script 'install.r' (from package little
in
Debian/Ubuntu and now also CRAN) as I prefer my CRAN packages to be fresh.
The sibbling script 'update.r' then refreshes installed packages against
what is on CRAN (but knows to leave apt/dpkg installed packages alone).

Dirk

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

On 5 November 2015 at 20:54, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| On 6 November 2015 at 09:14, Charles Plessy wrote:
| | by the way, speaking about the r-cran-rcurl package in Ubuntu, the versions
in
| | trusty and vivid are linked by error to the "NSS" flavour of
libcurl3 instead
| | of the "OpenSSL flavour", which cause at least problems when using
the CRAN
| | devtools package.  A bit more details are available in the Debian bug
tracking
| | system (https://bugs.debian.org/786473).  I am not sure if the Ubuntu
packages
| | can be easily corrected, but if there is an interest, please let me know and
I
| | will try.
| 
| I usually just deploy my helper script 'install.r' (from package
little in
| Debian/Ubuntu and now also CRAN) as I prefer my CRAN packages to be fresh.
| The sibbling script 'update.r' then refreshes installed packages
against
| what is on CRAN (but knows to leave apt/dpkg installed packages alone).

Oh, and then there are of course Michael's other repos.  Eg in  the Travis
setup file for the RProtoBuf repo (and package) we use

[...]
install:
  - ./travis-tool.sh install_aptget libprotobuf-dev libprotoc-dev \
                     protobuf-compiler r-cran-rcpp r-cran-runit \
                     r-cran-rcurl r-cran-highlight 
[...]

which gets these packages as (backported) binary deb packages -- for the
older Ubuntu 12.04 release that Travis still deploys.

This relies on

edd at max:~/git/r-travis(master)$ grep ppa scripts/travis-tool.sh 
    sudo add-apt-repository -y "ppa:marutter/rrutter"
    sudo add-apt-repository -y "ppa:marutter/c2d4u"
        sudo add-apt-repository -y "ppa:texlive-backports/ppa"
edd at max:~/git/r-travis(master)$ 

Hope this helps.

Dirk

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Charles Plessy
<charles-r-nospam at plessy.org> wrote:
> by the way, speaking about the r-cran-rcurl package in Ubuntu, the versions
in
> trusty and vivid are linked by error to the "NSS" flavour of
libcurl3 instead
> of the "OpenSSL flavour", which cause at least problems when
using the CRAN
> devtools package.  A bit more details are available in the Debian bug
tracking
> system (https://bugs.debian.org/786473).
This report is 6 months old. The 'devtools' package has since then
migrated away from the 'RCurl' dependency and now uses the new
'curl'
package. So at least for devtools this is no longer relevant.

On 11 November 2015 at 20:39, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
| On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Charles Plessy
| <charles-r-nospam at plessy.org> wrote:
| > by the way, speaking about the r-cran-rcurl package in Ubuntu, the
versions in
| > trusty and vivid are linked by error to the "NSS" flavour of
libcurl3 instead
| > of the "OpenSSL flavour", which cause at least problems when
using the CRAN
| > devtools package.  A bit more details are available in the Debian bug
tracking
| > system (https://bugs.debian.org/786473).
| 
| This report is 6 months old. The 'devtools' package has since then
| migrated away from the 'RCurl' dependency and now uses the new
'curl'
| package. So at least for devtools this is no longer relevant.

But as you know, old Ubuntu releases do not get updated retroactively. We
are in a better situation going forward, but for folks running the old
releases _vanilla_ problems persist.

Dirk

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http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org