[Feature request] Support for ARM architectures

[andresrcs]

Could you please consider supporting armv7l and arm64 architectures?, even a script for manual installation on those architectures would be great (or at least one that doesn't use a download of Deno if it is already present, letting us compile it with Cargo ourselves).

Just to clarify, my goal with this is to be able to compile RStudio on ARM (Raspberry Pi OS) which latest version requires Quarto

[jjallaire]

FYI we are currently in the process of making the Quarto bundle in RStudio optional on Arm (rstudio/rstudio#10159)

[andresrcs]

Thanks, that explains why RStudio compiled anyways once I commented out the Quarto install script and symlinked to the system pandoc in the usual default locations.

[eitsupi]

Perhaps we need to wait for the arm64 build of deno to be released? denoland/deno#1846
It seems that it has not been released because it takes a long time for the GitHub Actions runner to build arm64 deno.

[znmeb]

I'm not sure there's much payoff for a build on 32-bit ARM systems. Plenty of other software only runs on the 64-bit ARM Linux platforms, for example, Mambaforge.

[benz0li]

Perhaps we need to wait for the arm64 build of deno to be released? denoland/deno#1846
It seems that it has not been released because it takes a long time for the GitHub Actions runner to build arm64 deno.

I offered to provide a linux/arm64 GitHub Actions Runner to build an arm64 release of deno.

Devs @denoland insist on waiting for GitHub to provide official arm64 runners.

This may take a while.

[jmcphers]

RStudio is now has experimental builds for ARM architectures, currently w/o bundled Quarto due to this issue. https://dailies.rstudio.com/rstudio/elsbeth-geranium/server/jammy-arm64/

[andresrcs]

This is great news, any chance these builds will be available for Debian any time soon? I tried the existing ones but it seems Debian doesn't have zstd compression support so gdebi throws an error while reading those files

[jmcphers]

Generally speaking Debian should work -- we don't have any Debian specific builds because the Ubuntu builds generally work on Debian. Is the zstd requirement coming from gdebi? If so, maybe just use dpkg -i?

[andresrcs]

I get the same error message, `control.tar.zst' unintelligible.
This is the actual console output I get (sorry about the Spanish language)

sudo dpkg -i rstudio-server-2022.11.0-daily-122-arm64.deb
dpkg-deb: error: el archivo `rstudio-server-2022.11.0-daily-122-arm64.deb' contiene un miembro de datos `control.tar.zst' ininteligible, abandono
dpkg: error al procesar el archivo rstudio-server-2022.11.0-daily-122-arm64.deb (--install):
 el subproceso dpkg-deb --control devolvió el código de salida de error 2
Se encontraron errores al procesar:
 rstudio-server-2022.11.0-daily-122-arm64.deb

[jmcphers]

Thanks, that's helpful! What version of Debian are you using? The DEB package above is built on Ubuntu 22, which might use newer faculties than are supported on older Debian derivatives. I wanted to do a build on Ubuntu Bionic 18 but had some trouble with dependencies... maybe worth another look.

(Also, let's take this discussion over to rstudio/rstudio#8809 since it's tangential to the Quarto issue.)