Hi @kbipinkumar,
rstudio devs have started advising rstudio to be built with electron
Well. As far as I can see it's related to development branch at the moment. Stable releases still support 'Desktop' target (as well as all Docker configurations). If/When they announce such deprecation for the next release, I'll either switch to electron or give up and relax of this package maintaining.
Meanwhile you can experiment with electron version - there is an dev AUR package rstudio-desktop-git
- either contact maintainer or adopt.
UPD: Electron is insane. I've just built a test package: archive size is 100M vs 20M (315M vs 90M on disk installed)
-rw-r--r-- 1 trap000d trap000d 20M Aug 24 15:44 rstudio-desktop-2023.06.2.561-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 trap000d trap000d 105M Aug 28 09:37 rstudio-desktop-2023.06.2.561-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
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trap000d commented on 2024-05-16 21:42 (UTC) (edited on 2024-05-28 20:09 (UTC) by trap000d)
A note for users.
This package is quite complex. It MAY not be built because of OTHER issues. I always build, install and test it on at least two different machines. Only after that I would push a new version to AUR.
Please try some generic solutions before reporting of build problems:
1) Update all other packages (sudo pacman -Syu),
2) Clean up yay and/or makepkg caches ('yay -Sc', 'rm -rf /var/tmp/makepkg'),
3) Be sure you've got enough RAM (8 GB or more is highly recommended) and space on disk (at least 3 GB).
4) Is your Internet connection is stable, fast and not blocked somewhere?
trap000d commented on 2022-07-05 20:32 (UTC) (edited on 2022-10-03 06:28 (UTC) by trap000d)
PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE BEFORE COMPLAINING FOR LIBBOOST
When boost is updated to a new version and you see an error message about missing libboost*.so, you will need to rebuild and reinstall the rstudio-desktop package.
trap000d commented on 2022-02-19 06:20 (UTC) (edited on 2022-02-19 06:21 (UTC) by trap000d)
Build logic is slightly changed due to changes in upstream. As they've introduced new project format (quarto), it contradicted with standard Arch package base. In brief, quarto contains pandoc as part of itself, so it's pretty hard to keep together system pandoc and embedded quarto.
So I've "resolved" it such way: if there is "quarto*" package installed, then rstudio-desktop will pick it up and use. Otherwise (not installed), quarto support in rstudio will be disabled.
'quarto' is added as optional dependency.