How to solve library dependancy for Rstudio in Ubuntu 22.04

Question

I have just installed ubuntu 22.04. I could install R with sudo apt -y install r-base gdebi-core:

$ R

R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01) -- "Bird Hippie"
Copyright (C) 2021 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

But when I try to install Rstudio from the downloaded file I get:

$ sudo gdebi rstudio-2022.02.1-461-amd64.deb 
[sudo] password for gigiux: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
This package is uninstallable
Dependency is not satisfiable: libssl1.0.0|libssl1.0.2|libssl1.1

It is weird that a popular deb file misses a basic library, plus:

$ sudo apt install libssl1.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libssl1.1
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libssl1.1'

What is the correct procedure to install R and R studio on Ubuntu 22.04?

Answer 1

RStudio is currently preparing a version that fixes the issue. You can download their daily deb, which is not a released version, but I tested it and it works well:

https://dailies.rstudio.com/rstudio/spotted-wakerobin/desktop/jammy/

Here is the RStudio post (by an RStudio employee) linking to the above URL:

https://community.rstudio.com/t/dependency-error-when-installing-rstudio-on-ubuntu-22-04-with-libssl/135397/4

I would expect all subsequent dailies to work well, but for completeness the exact daily that I tested on Ubuntu 22.04 that worked well is "rstudio-2022.06.0-daily-341-amd64.deb".

Answer 2

I tried something that seems to have worked. I edited the desktop entry file for RStudio and added the --no-sandbox option flag to the Exec line. This automatically changed command executed when I click on the RStudio application icon, be it the desktop icon or the launcher icon in the favorites bar.

So, first go to the folder /usr/share/applications. There you will find a file named rstudio.desktop. Open this file with a text editor. The content probably will be something like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/usr/lib/rstudio/bin/rstudio %F
Icon=rstudio
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=RStudio
Categories=Development;IDE;
MimeType=text/x-r-source;text/x-r;text/x-R;text/x-r-doc;text/x-r-sweave;text/x-quarto-markdown;text/x-r-markdown;text/x-r-html;text/x-r-presentation;application/x-r-data;application/x-r-project;application/x-rdp-rsp;text/x-r-history;text/x-r-profile;text/x-tex;text/x-markdown;text/css;text/javascript;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;

Now, all you have to do is add the flag --no-sandbox to the Exec line, right before %F, like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/usr/lib/rstudio/bin/rstudio --no-sandbox %F
Icon=rstudio
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=RStudio
Categories=Development;IDE;
MimeType=text/x-r-source;text/x-r;text/x-R;text/x-r-doc;text/x-r-sweave;text/x-quarto-markdown;text/x-r-markdown;text/x-r-html;text/x-r-presentation;application/x-r-data;application/x-r-project;application/x-rdp-rsp;text/x-r-history;text/x-r-profile;text/x-tex;text/x-markdown;text/css;text/javascript;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;

How did it go?

Answer 3

I tried these codes after searching the internet and I found these codes working

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.1_1.1.1l-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb
sudo gdebi ./libssl1.1_1.1.1l-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb
sudo gdebi rstudio-2022.02.1-461-amd64.deb

-accept 'y' for installing dependencies and trigger rstudio flagged with --no-sandbox

rstudio --no-sandbox

this successfully worked for me

Answer 4

Looks like the above links may work in some instances, but we need to wait for further fixes and development of completely working RStudio by the RStudio team.

Link for the RStudio daily deb

Until then rstudio --no-sandbox is a better option to launch the application

@Thiago Albuquerque, adding --no-sandbox before "%F" in RStudio executor "Exec=/usr/lib/rstudio/bin/rstudio %F" is asking to check the save location due to permission issues, thus unable to save upon editing. If possible give a solution for this as this strategy can bypass every time manual execution through command line.