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I use Ubuntu 18.04 - 32 bit. Is it possible for me to install RStudio?

I have tried to install older versions of RStudio from here (RStudio Desktop 0.97.551 or RStudio Desktop 0.96.331). But they didn't work (I mean files have installed, no warnings, I can see the icon of RStudio, but it doesn't start at all)

Jack Po
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    You may have got more useful information if you actually said why they didn't work; ie. the site you linked offers debs, so was it issues installing, issues with dependencies, or no issues installing but it was during execution where you couldn't understand the crash reports? – guiverc Nov 27 '19 at 11:03
  • @guiverc, thanks, done. I really don't know what to add... – Jack Po Nov 27 '19 at 11:07
  • From the deb file you can see what files were installed and guess the executable (from location it was installed to I bet), so when executed from terminal did you get any messages? – guiverc Nov 27 '19 at 11:10
  • @guiverc actually yes – Jack Po Nov 27 '19 at 13:17

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I have tested the following method on 32-bit Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-0.97.551-i386.deb
sudo apt install ./rstudio-0.97.551-i386.deb
rstudio

It really does not start and shows the following error message:

$ rstudio 
rstudio: error while loading shared libraries: libgstapp-0.10.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

and the mentioned file was available only for previous Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

So we need to install it manually by downloading two packages:

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gstreamer0.10/libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1_i386.deb
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gst-plugins-base0.10/libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2ubuntu0.2_i386.deb
sudo apt install ./libgstreamer*.deb

And then it will complain about missed libpng12. I suppose that it is a bad idea to install it manually.

But we can use newer version of RStudio as follows:

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-1.1.463-i386.deb
sudo apt install ./rstudio-1.1.463-i386.deb

and use it without problems:

RStudio 32-bit

N0rbert
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