Running RStudio Workbench / RStudio Server on IBM/Power8

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  Indrajit Poddar February 28, 2017 00:26

  Hello Nathan,

  The article that you have referenced is very much dated. Currently POWER8 servers support Ubuntu and several other Linux distros in little endian mode which are very much compatible in terms of availability of software packages. This tool can be used to locate necessary packages on power on Ubuntu and other distros:
  https://developer.ibm.com/linuxonpower/open-source-pkgs/

  Also here is an excerpt of a Dockerfile to build RStudio server on POWER, we are working on publishing this to an open source repo:
  ## Start with the official rocker image providing 'base R'
  #FROM r-base:latest
  FROM ppc64le/ubuntu:trusty

  ## This handle reaches Carl and Dirk
  #MAINTAINER "Carl Boettiger and Dirk Eddelbuettel" rocker-maintainers@eddelbuettel.com

  ## Add RStudio binaries to PATH
  ENV PATH /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/:$PATH

  #RUN sh -c "echo 'deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"

  ## Download and install RStudio server & dependencies
  ## Attempts to get detect latest version, otherwise falls back to version given in $VER
  ## Symlink pandoc, pandoc-citeproc so they are available system-wide
  RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/ \
  && apt-get update \
  && apt-get install libssl1.0.0 \
  && apt-get install -y \
  ca-certificates \
  file \
  git \
  libapparmor1 \
  libedit2 \
  libcurl4-openssl-dev \
  libssl-dev \
  psmisc \
  python-setuptools \
  sudo \
  wget
  #
  # && VER=$(wget --no-check-certificate -qO- https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-server/current.ver) \
  # && wget -q http://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-${VER}-amd64.deb \
  # && dpkg -i rstudio-server-${VER}-amd64.deb \
  # && rm rstudio-server-*-amd64.deb \
  #
  RUN sudo apt-get update
  RUN sudo apt-get -y upgrade
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install r-base
  RUN apt-get -y install r-base-dev
  RUN mkdir rstudio
  RUN cd rstudio
  RUN wget https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/tarball/v0.99.903
  RUN tar zxvf ./v0.99.903 -C rstudio
  RUN ls -al

  RUN sudo apt-get update
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install build-essential g++ python-dev autotools-dev libicu-dev build-essential libbz2-dev libboost-all-dev
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install libbz2-dev

  RUN apt-get -y install haskell-platform

  RUN sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install pkg-config
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install fakeroot
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install cmake

  # core system libraries
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install uuid-dev
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install libssl-dev
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install libbz2-dev
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install zlib1g-dev
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install libpam-dev

  # needed for QtWebKit >= 5
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install libxslt1-dev

  # app armor dependencies no longer included in ubuntu >= 11.10
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install libapparmor1
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install apparmor-utils
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install libpango1.0-dev
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install ant
  RUN sudo apt-get -y install unzip
  #installing pandoc

  RUN sudo apt-get -y install haskell-platform
  RUN sudo apt-get update

  RUN apt-get -y install pandoc pandoc-citeproc
  #prepare pre-reqs
  WORKDIR /rstudio/rstudio-rstudio-0eb2d8e/dependencies/
  RUN pwd
  COPY ./common/* ./common/
  RUN ls -al

  WORKDIR /rstudio/rstudio-rstudio-0eb2d8e/dependencies/linux/
  RUN ./install-dependencies-debian --exclude-qt-sdk
  WORKDIR /rstudio/rstudio-rstudio-0eb2d8e/
  RUN mkdir build
  WORKDIR build

  #install java sdk
  RUN sudo apt-get update
  RUN sudo apt-get install -y openjdk-7-jdk
  RUN apt-get -y install pandoc pandoc-citeproc
  #installation of RSTUDION

  RUN cmake .. -DRSTUDIO_TARGET=Server -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
  RUN make install

  #post installation steps according to INSTALL doc

  RUN sudo useradd -r rstudio-server
  RUN cp /usr/local/lib/rstudio-server/extras/init.d/debian/rstudio-server /etc/init.d/
  RUN ls -al /etc/init.d/rstudio*
  RUN sudo update-rc.d rstudio-server defaults
  RUN sudo ln -f -s /usr/local/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rstudio-server /usr/sbin/rstudio-server
  RUN mkdir -p /var/run/rstudio-server
  RUN mkdir -p /var/lock/rstudio-server
  RUN mkdir -p /var/log/rstudio-server
  RUN mkdir -p /var/lib/rstudio-server

  #------------------------------------------------------------
  # sudo rstudio-server start
  #temp part only for test purpose to check if server starts

  EXPOSE 8787

  ## Expose a default volume for Kitematic
  VOLUME /home/rstudio

  #CMD ["/usr/sbin/rstudio-server","start"]
  CMD ["/bin/bash"]
  #-------------------------------------------------------------