Rstudio for debian

Goal:

sudo apt install rstudio-server

works by default.

Notes / TODO

• Dependencies
  • boost

libboost-atomic-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-atomic1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-atomic1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-chrono-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-chrono1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-chrono1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-date-time-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-date-time1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-date-time1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-filesystem-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-filesystem1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-filesystem1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-iostreams-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-iostreams1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-iostreams1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-locale1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-program-options-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-program-options1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-program-options1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-random-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-random1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-random1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-regex-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-regex1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-regex1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-serialization1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-serialization1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-system-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-system1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-system1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-thread-dev/testing,now 1.74.0.3 amd64 [installed]
libboost-thread1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost-thread1.74.0/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libboost1.74-dev/testing,now 1.74.0-16.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libref-util-xs-perl/testing,now 0.117-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libtype-tiny-xs-perl/testing,now 0.022-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]

* RStudio uses vendored build?
* Newer version than debian testing?
  * Set version explicitly in cmake overrides

• yaml-cpp

libyaml-cpp-dev/testing,now 0.7.0+dfsg-8 amd64 [installed]
libyaml-cpp0.7/testing,now 0.7.0+dfsg-8 amd64 [installed]

* Rstudio uses older version by default
* Older version of yaml-cpp had different CMake pkgconfig variables?
  * so comment out checks in RStudio cmake

• SOCI

libsoci-core4.0/testing,now 4.0.1-5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libsoci-dev/testing,now 4.0.1-5 amd64 [installed]
libsoci-firebird4.0/testing,now 4.0.1-5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libsoci-mysql4.0/testing,now 4.0.1-5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libsoci-odbc4.0/testing,now 4.0.1-5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libsoci-postgresql4.0/testing,now 4.0.1-5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libsoci-sqlite3-4.0/testing,now 4.0.1-5 amd64 [installed]

* `set(SOCI_LIBRARY_DIR "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/")`
  * TODO this seems "bad" / arch specific?

• GWT
  • Very old, no longer in debian apt repos
  • Vendored
  • Arch uses jdk8
  • oldest jdk in debian testing is jdk11
    • added JAVA_HOME to rules
    • requires flags to allow unrestricted reflection? disallowed by jdk19?
• Node
  • Replaced all find_program with default paths? not sure if that did anything
  • Also hardcoded in GWT ant build ?
  • RStudio uses old node, seems to work fine with the newer one in debian testing.
• Tools dependencies
  • Are these really required to build? Can RStudio just use installed versions at runtime?
  • set(RSTUDIO_DEPENDENCIES_DICTIONARIES_DIR "/usr/share/dict/")
    • or should it be /usr/share/dictionaries? what's the difference?
  • set(RSTUDIO_DEPENDENCIES_MATHJAX_DIR "/usr/share/javascript/mathjax/")
    • libjs-mathjax
  • set(RSTUDIO_DEPENDENCIES_PANDOC_DIR "/usr/bin")
• Build issues
  • Tried setting -DQUARTO_ENABLED=no in rules
    • But 230MB of quarto is in generated package? How did it get there?
  • dh_dwz failure
    • For now, skipped
  • Many lint failures? Not surprising at this point TODO
  • TODO copy the rstudio postinstall/postrm to debian/