Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Fedora 41 Rstudio change

 After upgrading to Fedora 41, I was surprised that RStudio has been deleted. It was  RStudio's transition to Electron from Qt which made Fedora developers exclude RStudio from official repos. So from now on one needs to install RStduio from copr repo maintained by iucar at this address.

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Fedora 40 RStudio startup error

 After upgrading my laptop to Fedora 40, I started RStudio and tried to install an R package. The install was failed with an error message saying

libicui18n.so.73: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After doing a quick search, I thought this is a simple lacking or unlinking issue and thought creating a symbolic link will solve. I tried to understand what libicu packages were installed in my Fedora laptop. There seemed a libicu package installed. 

After some more search on my computer, I realised libicu73 package is a different package than that libicu installed on my laptop. Installing libicu73, finally solved the error I was getting.