RStudio.AppImage.Recipe

#!/bin/bash
# Generate a RStudio*.AppImage (either stable or one of the dailies) file which can be used by 
# marking it as axecuteable and simply running it
#	
#   ./rstudio  1.1.90 # version downloads a daily
#   chmod +x RStudio*.AppImage
#   ./RStudio*.AppImage

# It uses the provided deb for an older ubuntu and adds the required packages from debian oldstable

set -e

APP=RStudio
LOWERAPP=rstudio # ${APP,,}

mkdir -p ./$APP/$APP.AppDir/usr/lib

cd ./$APP/

wget -q https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/raw/master/functions.sh -O ./functions.sh
. ./functions.sh

# We get this app and almost all its dependencies via apt-get
# but not using the host system's information about what is
# installed on the system but our own assumptions instead

generate_status

echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib non-free
" > sources.list

if [[ "x$1x" == "xx" ]] ; then
	wget -c "https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-1.0.136-amd64.deb"
else
    wget -c "https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-dailybuilds/rstudio-$1-amd64.deb"
fi
# Add local repository so that we can install deb files
# that were downloaded outside of a repository
dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz
echo "deb file:$(readlink -e $PWD) ./" >> sources.list

apt-get $OPTIONS update

# running rstudio in the appimage runtime expects libxml2 in some special place, so move it there later on
URLS=$(apt-get $OPTIONS -y install --print-uris $LOWERAPP libxml2 | cut -d "'" -f 2 | grep -e "^http")

wget -c $URLS

cd ./$APP.AppDir/

find ../*.deb -exec dpkg -x {} . \; || true

cp ./usr/share/applications/$LOWERAPP.desktop .
rm -rf ./usr/share/icons/48x48/apps || true
find ./usr/share/icons -path *256* -name $LOWERAPP.png -exec cp {} . \; || true
find ./usr/share/icons -path *512* -name $LOWERAPP.png -exec cp {} . \; || true

get_apprun

# Copy in the indirect dependencies
# copy_deps # not needed here due to the way we use apt to download everything

move_lib
# mv doesn't really work due to non-empty directories...
cp -r ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/* ./usr/lib/ && rm -R ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/*
mkdir ./lib

# No idea why, but now it works...
mv ./usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 ./lib

delete_blacklisted
rm -rf ./etc/ ./home/ || true

# rstudio has a nonstandard naming :-/
VER1=$(find ../*.deb -name "${LOWERAPP}-*" | head -n 1 | cut -d "-" -f 2 )
GLIBC_NEEDED=$(glibc_needed)
VERSION=$VER1.glibc$GLIBC_NEEDED
echo $VERSION

# the get_desktopintegration function usually installs the wrapper + desktop file, but this doesn't work here 
# because of the directory layout of rstudio
mkdir  -p ./usr/bin
wget -O ./usr/bin/rstudio.wrapper https://raw.githubusercontent.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/master/desktopintegration
chmod +x ./usr/bin/rstudio.wrapper

# the wrapper expects a /usr/bin/<NAME> binary, so create one...
(cd ./usr/bin ; rm -rvf rstudio; ln -s ../lib/rstudio/bin/rstudio .)

# rstudio ships with a full path to /usr/lib/rstudio/bin/rstudio, but we want to use a wrapper
sed -i -e "s|^Exec=.*|Exec=$LOWERAPP.wrapper|g" *.desktop

# Go out of AppImage
cd ..

generate_appimage