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@Meow I would like to second cbrnr's comment. Would it be possible for the maintainer to update the PKGBUILD so that the binary is on the PATH by default? Currently I am using hopimet's fix (2022-12-26), but ideally this should be corrected natively.

I also tried the new rstudio-bin package, but rstudio-desktop-bin is currently much more popular, so a fix here would be useful to many people.

@antipersistent I am aware of the comments in the other package. I wanted to point out that now there are two packages that provide RStudio (binary), which is not ideal from a user perspective. Given that rstudio-desktop-bin is way more popular, chances are that users are going to try that by default. So I was just wondering if you and the maintainers of rstudio-desktop-bin might be interested in joining efforts to provide just one package for RStudio. In any case, thanks for providing a working version!

@cbrnr If you take a look at the rstudio-dekstop-bin comments page, the issue and the fix has been pointed out by several users. There also used to be an issue of openssl-1.1 dependency missing, which was also pointed out there and was unfixed for a long time. rstudio-bin was created to apply these fixes and make rstudio usable. Please note that these issues are/were not minor trivialities, they leave the package completely broken where rstudio wouldn't even fire up.

@Meow would you be willing to include the patch that adds the binary and desktop launcher so that they are available by default? Currently, neiter of those files are on the PATH, so by default users cannot launch RStudio. There is a new package rstudio-bin on AUR created just to add this patch. It would be very nice if this could be integrated into this package here, because it is way more popular, has been kept up to date, and has always been the go-to package for the binary release.

I don't think adding yet another package for RStudio is necessary. Did you try to get your fix into rstudio-desktop-bin? It might be the case that they've already fixed it (but their current build has a different issue right now).

The openssl-1.1 dependency isn't necessary if you update the download source to the one for Ubuntu 22.04, which uses OpenSSL 3.0.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index a8ac26d..2baadca 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -13,3 +13,3 @@ url="http://www.rstudio.org/"
 depends=('r>=3.3.0' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'shared-mime-info' 'openssl'
-  'libxkbcommon-x11' 'libedit' 'postgresql-libs' 'sqlite' 'nss' 'openssl-1.1')
+  'libxkbcommon-x11' 'libedit' 'postgresql-libs' 'sqlite' 'nss')
 makedepends=()
@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@ options=(!strip)
 sha256sums_x86_64=(
-d71b670e3d0f5829d3cf107bba5d4da547ddcc010f62bccf758229891f1a16a4 
+0a347709cd07eebd4ce0c635d87c87151e81254bbc390265a45a6c1ff438cb23
 )

-source_x86_64=("https://download1.rstudio.org/electron/bionic/amd64/rstudio-${_pkgver}-amd64.deb"
+source_x86_64=("https://download1.rstudio.org/electron/jammy/amd64/rstudio-${_pkgver}-amd64.deb"
 )

The openssl-1.1 dependency isn't necessary if you update the download source to the one for Ubuntu 22.04, which uses OpenSSL 3.0.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 94fcc32..67542a9 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,3 +10,3 @@ license=('GPL')
 url="http://www.rstudio.org/"
-depends=('r>=3.3.0' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'shared-mime-info' 'openssl' 'openssl-1.1'
+depends=('r>=3.3.0' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'shared-mime-info' 'openssl'
   'at-spi2-core' 'gtk3' 'alsa-lib' 'libedit' 'postgresql-libs' 'sqlite')
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ options=(!strip)
 sha256sums_x86_64=(
-d71b670e3d0f5829d3cf107bba5d4da547ddcc010f62bccf758229891f1a16a4
+0a347709cd07eebd4ce0c635d87c87151e81254bbc390265a45a6c1ff438cb23
 )

-source_x86_64=("https://download1.rstudio.org/electron/bionic/amd64/rstudio-${_pkgver}-amd64.deb")
+source_x86_64=("https://download1.rstudio.org/electron/jammy/amd64/rstudio-${_pkgver}-amd64.deb")

@mergen

rstudio-desktop-bin has a broken PKGBUILD which doesnt place a binary of rstudio in path on installation. This PKGBUILD completes that