[R-sig-Debian] Why is rstudio not in Ubuntu repo or PPA?

[JJ Allaire]

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 using 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 using 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 using 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 using gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Xu Wang <xuwang762 using gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:06 AM, JJ Allaire <jj using 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 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:42 AM, JJ Allaire <jj using 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
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>
> >>
>

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