Installing RStudio Server on Fedora 18

I'm trying to install RStudio Server on Fedora 18 (64bit) but keep getting an error about libcrypto.so.6 and libssl.so.6. (I didn't enable EPEL as I am not on RedHat/CentOS).

Following the installation instructions, I:

wget http://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-0.97.336-x86_64.rpm
sudo yum install --nogpgcheck rstudio-server-0.97.336-x86_64.rpm

But I get the error:

Error: Package: rstudio-server-0.97.336-1.x86_64 (/rstudio-server-0.97.336-x86_64)
           Requires: libcrypto.so.6()(64bit)
Error: Package: rstudio-server-0.97.336-1.x86_64 (/rstudio-server-0.97.336-x86_64)
           Requires: libssl.so.6()(64bit)

If I look in /usr/lib64 I have (both from the openssl-libs package: yum provides /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10):

/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.10
/usr/lib64/libssl.so.10

So it appears my package versions are too new for RStudio Server (!).

I decided to try the hacky solution of making some links from the old version to the new (hoping that they are backwards-compatible):

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.10 /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.6
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.6

Now I attempt to install again, and use rpm --nodeps instead of yum to force installation:

sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps rstudio-server-0.97.336-x86_64.rpm

It works!

Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:rstudio-server-0.97.336-1        ################################# [100%]
rsession: no process found
Stopping rstudio-server (via systemctl):                   [  OK  ]
Starting rstudio-server (via systemctl):                   [  OK  ]

(Note - if it's still complaining to you about not finding libraries, try

sudo ldd /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver | grep 'not found'

You might get something like:

libssl.so.6 => not found
libcrypto.so.6 => not found

This will tell you which libraries you need to make links for.)

I can test whether it worked OK by opening a browser and pointing it to http://127.0.0.1:8787:

Huzzah! RStudio Server!

To enable external access I had to open port 8787 for my firewall (you could use the firewall applet for this instead of command-line)

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8787 -j ACCEPT

Now I can continue with the rest of the instructions! Yay!