Recipe for installing a recent RStudio on current64
by keithpeter from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FD8D)
Hello All
I'm testing current on an old laptop. I skipped the kde package set, apart from that it is a full 64 bit install, updated to today. I'm using xfce4.
R is a command line based statistical language that is quite popular. There is a slackbuild for it on slackbuilds.org and it is a simple compilation with no external dependencies.
RStudio is an IDE for R which is often referred to in books about R. RStudio distribute binary builds for .rpm and for .deb. The source code is available but it is a complex compilation with a lot of dependencies. There is a slackbuild for version 1.1.4 of RStudio that re-packages the .deb based binary. RStudio 1.1.4 is the last version (I think) that supports 32 bit, the newer ones are 64 bit only. I decided to try installing the most recent version of RStudio, 1.4.x on current.
After some head scratching and googling, I found that you need to
The T61p Thinkpad has nvidia graphics and I have not installed the nvidia drivers, so I had to add the line below to RStudio's desktop.ini file to disable accelerated graphics for just RStudio.
Code:ash-5.1$ cat /home/keith/.config/RStudio/desktop.ini
[General]
...
desktop.renderingEngine=software
...I'm wondering if this recipe looks sort of sensible and/or there is an obviously easier way. It works fine... at the moment :foot:
I'm testing current on an old laptop. I skipped the kde package set, apart from that it is a full 64 bit install, updated to today. I'm using xfce4.
R is a command line based statistical language that is quite popular. There is a slackbuild for it on slackbuilds.org and it is a simple compilation with no external dependencies.
RStudio is an IDE for R which is often referred to in books about R. RStudio distribute binary builds for .rpm and for .deb. The source code is available but it is a complex compilation with a lot of dependencies. There is a slackbuild for version 1.1.4 of RStudio that re-packages the .deb based binary. RStudio 1.1.4 is the last version (I think) that supports 32 bit, the newer ones are 64 bit only. I decided to try installing the most recent version of RStudio, 1.4.x on current.
After some head scratching and googling, I found that you need to
- install postressql from slackbuilds. I just used the 14.2 slackbuild with no issues
- download and convert the compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-3.el8.x86_64.tgz package from the CentOS 8 repositories and install the resulting Slack package
- download and convert the RStudio .rpm binary package and install the resulting Slack package
The T61p Thinkpad has nvidia graphics and I have not installed the nvidia drivers, so I had to add the line below to RStudio's desktop.ini file to disable accelerated graphics for just RStudio.
Code:ash-5.1$ cat /home/keith/.config/RStudio/desktop.ini
[General]
...
desktop.renderingEngine=software
...I'm wondering if this recipe looks sort of sensible and/or there is an obviously easier way. It works fine... at the moment :foot: