Thank you so much for the explanation, JJ! It is very kind of you to give such detail and transparency. I am highly appreciative of it. Kind regards, Xu On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 4:50 PM, JJ Allaire <jj at rstudio.com> wrote:> 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 >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >>
Dirk Eddelbuettel
2018-Aug-02 11:38 UTC
[R-sig-Debian] Why is rstudio not in Ubuntu repo or PPA?
As for non-manual updates, I have been using two scripts for a few years: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/blob/master/inst/examples/getRStudioDesktop.r https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/blob/master/inst/examples/getRStudioServer.r They are part of the littler package (in Debian and Ubuntu, and on CRAN) and get tweaked / updated as the base URLs change. Currently hardwired for the system I use (Ubuntu, amd64) but easy to generalize. That said, a PPA would be preferable as apt and friends are of course perfectly capable to 'sort' among available versions, download and install. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
Yes, a PPA would definitely be great and we'll look into doing that soon. Dirk, you can avoid some of the scraping you are doing in those scripts via the URLs here (which are redirects to the latest stable/preview/daily versions): https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/203842428-Getting-the-newest-RStudio-builds On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 7:39 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:> > As for non-manual updates, I have been using two scripts for a few years: > > > https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/blob/master/inst/examples/getRStudioDesktop.r > > https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/blob/master/inst/examples/getRStudioServer.r > > They are part of the littler package (in Debian and Ubuntu, and on CRAN) > and > get tweaked / updated as the base URLs change. Currently hardwired for the > system I use (Ubuntu, amd64) but easy to generalize. > > That said, a PPA would be preferable as apt and friends are of course > perfectly capable to 'sort' among available versions, download and install. > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]