Deion of issue: I think it would be an small QoL improvement

Clearly list system dependencies in documentation about devtools HOT 1 CLOSED

harmongray commented on August 27, 2024 2

Clearly list system dependencies in documentation

from devtools.

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hadley commented on August 27, 2024 1

In general, I'd recommend using pak::pak() to install packages because it will automatically install system requirements if possible, and if not, tell you what packages you need to install.

If you don't want to turn over all installation to pak, you can instead just use it's systreqs facilities, eg.

pak::pkg_sysreqs("devtools")
#> ℹ Loading metadata database
#> ✔ Loading metadata database ... done
#> 
#> ── Install scripts  ─────────────────────────── Ubuntu NA ──
#> apt-get -y update
#> apt-get -y install git libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev make zlib1g-dev pandoc \
#>   libfreetype6-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libicu-dev \
#>   libfontconfig1-dev libfribidi-dev libharfbuzz-dev libxml2-dev
#> 
#> ── Packages and their system dependencies ────────
#> credentials – git
#> curl        – libcurl4-openssl-dev, libssl-dev
#> fs          – make
#> gitcreds    – git
#> httpuv      – make, zlib1g-dev
#> knitr       – pandoc
#> openssl     – libssl-dev
#> pkgdown     – pandoc
#> ragg        – libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev, libpng-dev, libtiff-dev
#> remotes     – git
#> rmarkdown   – pandoc
#> sass        – make
#> stringi     – libicu-dev
#> systemfonts – libfontconfig1-dev, libfreetype6-dev
#> textshaping – libfreetype6-dev, libfribidi-dev, libharfbuzz-dev
#> xml2        – libxml2-dev