[Solved] RStudio / IDE doubt

[quiet heath]

Hello all! I wish to try out Vanilla OS for friends.. (I'm too engaged with NixOS personally)

I've got a doubt.. What's the standard way of setting up development environments and IDEs? Especially R and RStudio

[royal mauve]

Step 1: install Python, numpy and pandas

[fresh phoenix]

I would just configure it as normal in a container.

VSO or maybe APX if you need non debian packages

[royal mauve]

https://cran.rstudio.com/ from within the main container, then vso export -a rstudio

https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/ and download the "Ubuntu 22/Debian 12" version

then open the file in the "Sideload" app, which should install R Studio

[fresh phoenix]

Sideload I've been told may cause problems.

use apt in the container.

[royal mauve]

Sideload is a GUI for sudo dpkg -i <file.deb>, so the same caveat apply

[fresh phoenix]

Yes, but installing packages on the host is asking for trouble.

[royal mauve]

It's not installing on the host, it's installing in the vso-pico container

[cedar dust]

Not really, more of a libapt/apt wrapper since it pulls down dependencies unlike dpkg

[royal mauve]

That's weird, it didn't on a few packages I tried to install, I had to apt -f install to fix the missing the dependencies

[cedar dust]

But i rememver seeing the output for it when install protonvpn and it was downloading the kde dependencies

[bleak helm]

I just set up RStudio today. I had one issue: after downloading the RStudio .deb and installing it with double click, it says install complete and the icon shows up in the applications menu. But, clicking it does not launch RStudio. Turns out it is due to missing dependencies: you need
sudo apt install libnss3
sudo apt install libasound2

[quiet heath]

Thanks a lot! I'll set it up once her computer arrives

[Solved] RStudio / IDE doubt

[royal mauve]

yes, can confirm, maybe this is something to bring up to the maintainers of the package, that means they don't have the necessary dependencies listed in the debian package

[royal mauve]

what I would recommend is that you do the install from within a separate container with an apx subsystem, so that she can then freely install whatever she needs after the fact from the R Studio terminal, and if she borks it she/you can simply recreate a new one

If there's any way to do snapshots with apx subsystems (if there aren't, that would be a cool feature), you can do a snapshot right after finalizing the installation of the program

[bleak helm]

II installed the RStudio .deb on a clean install of Debian with no dependency issues - does that still mean the issue is with the package maintainers? I just want to make sure it is with the package maintainers and not a Vanilla OS issue before raising it there.

[cedar dust]

The issue is that the packer assumes the system comes preinstalled with alsa, which isnt really the case with the containers, since the main system already has alsa installed (emulated by pipewire)