Debian support

[larry77]

Hello, not an issue but rather a question : I run Debian stable on my box. Is it safe/possible for me to use r2u? How about Linux but non Ubuntu users in general? Thanks for the great effort

[eddelbuettel]

This is a duplicate of #1.

Edit: Not really, I read too fast. But it is a question somewhat out of scope for r2u.

[eddelbuettel]

It is an obvious question, but there are also obvious resource constraints on my part. I may try to take another stab at answering or at least mentioning this in the documentation website / FAQ section.

[eddelbuettel]

And no you should not in general mix Debian and Ubuntu. You are best adviised to back up your files from $HOME and other places and install freshly with Ubuntu if you want to switch. This is also more of a general 'how do I ...' question for Ubuntu and Debian and not specific to r2u.

[larry77]

Thanks for the answers.

[eddelbuettel]

There are good solutions for Debian too There are about 1000 packages in the distribution, containing most of the 'harder' ones and you can always build from source.

But sad;y we do not currently have something like r2u for Debian. Sorry.