Source build and rpm

[tontief]

Hi, are there any plans to provide rpm packages (I'm a Fedora user). Furthermore, I could not find any detailed build instructions (even in the tarball), are they available anywhere?
Thanks.

[jennybc]

@lionel- I think you may be the best informed about this. Would you chime in here?

[tontief]

Just to explain my current state: I use it on Fedora by manually unpacking the .deb and executing from the right subfolder (works without problems, might not be optimal).

[sharon-wang]

@tontief Today's release is our first release with an RPM build available! https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/releases/tag/2024.10.0-13

If you take it for a spin, it'd be great to hear from you -- hopefully working without problems :)

[tontief]

Installs and works perfectly on Fedora 40 Kernel 6.10.11-200.fc40.x86_64
Thanks everyone!

[CodeCox]

Installed and ran on Fedora 40 KDE painlessly ... Thanks!

minor branding issue - vscode logo? (sorry 😄 )

PS. But more seriously, I did hit a wall when I tried running Quarto: Preview but that error is a saga for another day
(story starts with no Quarto rpm ... not the latest Quarto version, pixi env, etc).

[juliasilge]

Thanks for the report! I have opened #4972 to get that icon updated.