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. 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.
