Split from: Install fails on Ubuntu 14.04 with latest open source Shiny
I'm running into the same error with v1.5.9.923, but I don't see any "PRO ONLY directives". Any idea on what's going on? My error log:
$ sudo gdebi shiny-server-1.5.9.923-amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Shiny Server
Shiny Server is a server program from RStudio, Inc. that makes Shiny applications available over the web. Shiny is a web application framework for the R statistical computation language.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
(Reading database ... 32588 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack shiny-server-1.5.9.923-amd64.deb ...
Unpacking shiny-server (1.5.9.923) over (1.5.3.838) ...
Setting up shiny-server (1.5.9.923) ...
User shiny already exists. Ensuring proper permissions on /home/shiny/.
Adding LANG to /etc/init/shiny-server.conf, setting to en_US.UTF-8
initctl: Job failed to start
System info
- RStudio Edition: NA
- RStudio Version: NA
- OS Version: Ubuntu 16.04.6
- R Version: 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Update
This problem seems to be due to how the server admin set up the VM that I'm installing shiny server into. shiny-server --pidfile=/var/run/shiny-server.pid seems to work, so I'm planning on just using that.