Why is rstudio not in Ubuntu repo or PPA?
What keeps happening to us is that we end up requiring older or patched versions of Qt, which makes it challenging to be synced to whatever version of Qt happens to be in Debian/Ubuntu. Essentially we often need to vendor Qt, and that isn't something that is compatible with being in the standard Debian or Ubuntu repos (but may be compatible with Snaps or other packaging/bundling standards). We definitely should have a PPA though. Jonathan, is that something we're considering along with work on Linux bundling (w/ Snaps, etc.)? I guess we should also find out if it's acceptable to vendor Qt within a PPA. Note that automated installation of the latest versions of RStudio stable, preview, and daily builds is possible using the URLs published here: https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/203842428-Getting-the-newest-RStudio-builds. I realize this isn't a PPA, but it's at least a way of installing/updating non-interactively. J.J.
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 4:36 PM Xu Wang <xuwang762 at gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All, I try not to bump too much, but I just tried Ubuntu 18.04, and it is not in repo and I still do not see any PPA available. If it would help, I can spend the time to explain why I believe it helpful to install using a command rather than webbrowser, but I think this is already understood why helpful, but it seems there is just a technical tricky problem to solve to implementation. Thank you so much for all of your works. I'm sorry to insist on this issue. Let me know if there is something I can help for testing. Kind regards, Xu On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Xu Wang <xuwang762 at gmail.com> wrote:
OK thank you for your reply! It is too bad the environment is not right yet in Ubuntu, but I will keep hoping that things work out. Thank you for all of your work! Kind regards, Xu On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:02 PM, JJ Allaire <jj at rstudio.com> wrote:
We still haven't gone to Qt 5.6 unfortunately. They've deprecated
QtWebKit
(which is part of the Qt 5.4 release which we are on now) so that's not
a
good place to be long term. Qt 5.6 includes the Chromium based QWebView and is also an LTS Qt
release so
it's definitely the right platform to be on. We have a very small team though and many other priorities, bug fixes, etc. tend to intrude. J.J. On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Xu Wang <xuwang762 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Xu Wang <xuwang762 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:06 AM, JJ Allaire <jj at rstudio.com> wrote:
Not yet. We need to migrate to Qt 5.6 then I think it will be pretty seamless.
I see. Thank you for update and for your kind work, J.J.!
Hi JJ, Any update? It seems it did not make it into Ubuntu 16.04. But thank you very much for trying! I really appreciate your effort. Perhaps there is a chance we can get it into 16.10? Kind regards, Xu
Kind regards, Xu
J.J. On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Xu Wang <xuwang762 at gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:42 AM, JJ Allaire <jj at rstudio.com>
wrote:
It seems likely that it will be in 16.04 since it's due in
December
of this year. That would indeed be a good time for things to come
together!
J.J.
Can anyone confirm that the rstudio package is now in the 16.04
repos
? That would be exciting! Kind regards, Xu