Install Quarto from the Posit Open apt repo in workbench-session#78
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`quarto install tinytex` installs to \$HOME/.TinyTeX by default; during a Docker build that is /root/.TinyTeX, which is unreadable for the runtime user in Workbench and Workbench Session images. Pass `HOME="/opt"` so the install lands at /opt/.TinyTeX instead, matching the pattern used in rstudio-docker-products. `--update-path` causes tlmgr to symlink the TinyTeX binaries into /usr/local/bin so they are on PATH. Covers both the `workbench` image (TinyTeX installed against the bundled rstudio-server Quarto) and `workbench-session` (TinyTeX installed against the apt-installed Quarto from PR #78). Tracks: - posit-dev/images-shared#477 - quarto-dev/quarto-cli#11800 (upstream; once resolved the HOME override can be dropped)
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`quarto install tinytex` installs to \$HOME/.TinyTeX by default; during a Docker build that is /root/.TinyTeX, which is unreadable for the runtime user in Workbench and Workbench Session images. Pass `HOME="/opt"` so the install lands at /opt/.TinyTeX instead, matching the pattern used in rstudio-docker-products. `--update-path` causes tlmgr to symlink the TinyTeX binaries into /usr/local/bin so they are on PATH. Covers both the `workbench` image (TinyTeX installed against the bundled rstudio-server Quarto) and `workbench-session` (TinyTeX installed against the apt-installed Quarto from PR #78). Tracks: - posit-dev/images-shared#477 - quarto-dev/quarto-cli#11800 (upstream; once resolved the HOME override can be dropped)
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`quarto install tinytex` installs to \$HOME/.TinyTeX by default; during a Docker build that is /root/.TinyTeX, which is unreadable for the runtime user in Workbench and Workbench Session images. Pass `HOME="/opt"` so the install lands at /opt/.TinyTeX instead, matching the pattern used in rstudio-docker-products. `--update-path` causes tlmgr to symlink the TinyTeX binaries into /usr/local/bin so they are on PATH. Covers both the `workbench` image (TinyTeX installed against the bundled rstudio-server Quarto) and `workbench-session` (TinyTeX installed against the apt-installed Quarto from PR #78). Tracks: - posit-dev/images-shared#477 - quarto-dev/quarto-cli#11800 (upstream; once resolved the HOME override can be dropped)
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`quarto install tinytex` installs to \$HOME/.TinyTeX by default; during a Docker build that is /root/.TinyTeX, which is unreadable for the runtime user in Workbench and Workbench Session images. Pass `HOME="/opt"` so the install lands at /opt/.TinyTeX instead, matching the pattern used in rstudio-docker-products. `--update-path` causes tlmgr to symlink the TinyTeX binaries into /usr/local/bin so they are on PATH. Covers both the `workbench` image (TinyTeX installed against the bundled rstudio-server Quarto) and `workbench-session` (TinyTeX installed against the apt-installed Quarto from PR #78). Tracks: - posit-dev/images-shared#477 - quarto-dev/quarto-cli#11800 (upstream; once resolved the HOME override can be dropped)
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Migrate workbench-session Quarto installation from GitHub tarball to the Posit Open apt repository. TinyTeX is installed under HOME="/opt" so non-root users can access it, and quarto is pinned with apt-mark hold. Goss tests updated to verify the package hold, TinyTeX placement, and use quarto.get_directory() for paths.
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workbench-sessionto install Quarto viaapt-get install quarto={version}from the Posit Open apt repository, using the updatedquarto.install()macro from posit-dev/images-shared.Requires posit-dev/images-shared#479.
Why
${TARGETARCH}URL construction. Posit publishesquartoas a multi-arch deb (amd64 + arm64) on bothjammyandnoble.package.quarto.versionsassertions work directly without path-based proxies.Changes
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quartodeb installs to a flat/opt/quarto/directory (binary at/opt/quarto/bin/quarto) and symlinks/usr/local/bin/quartovia its postinst script. Downstream consequences in this repo:quarto.symlink_binary(...)call inworkbench-session/template/Containerfile.ubuntu*.jinja2— the deb's postinst already creates the/usr/local/bin/quartosymlink.xz-utilsexplicitly in the TinyTeX RUN; it is needed to unpack the TinyTeX.tar.xzarchive and was previously pulled in transitively by the tarball install./opt/quarto/{version}to/opt/quarto/bin/quartoand add apackage.quarto.versionscheck (now possible because the install is dpkg-tracked).Not affected
workbench(as distinct fromworkbench-session) bundles Quarto withrstudio-serverand usesquarto.install_tinytex_command(...)against that bundled binary. That flow is unchanged.Test plan