RStudio install on Ubuntu 16.10 fails due to libgstreamer

Question

EDIT: According to Jonathan of RStudio a new version doesn\'t need libgstreamer. See his post below for the relevant link.

RStudio won\'t install on Ubuntu 16.10 as

Answer 1

Turns out that it IS possible. Thanks to Mike Williamson for excellent instructions, reproduced below:

1) Get the latest R Studio Daily Build here, though note that it's not necessarily stable.

2) Install, chaning the name of the package to the one you downloaded - perhaps easiest if you go to your Downloads directory - and you'll probably find that there are missing packages:

sudo dpkg -i rstudio-1.0.124-amd64.deb

3) Download the missing packages (the lack of which causes the installation to fail):

wget http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gstreamer0.10/libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gst-plugins-base0.10/libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb

4) Install them:

sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb

5) Make sure they don't get over-written at the next software update:

sudo apt-mark hold libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
sudo apt-mark hold libgstreamer0.10

6) Install RStudio (changing name to the version you downloaded):

sudo gdebi rstudio-1.1.5-amd64.deb

7) Launch RStudio:

rstudio