PPM binary packages unavailable b/c Docker Sandbox uses non-LTS Ubuntu

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Docker Sandbox appears to run a non-LTS Ubuntu release. Posit Package Manager (PPM) only provides pre-built R binaries for LTS releases (jammy, noble).

Would it be possible to support the Docker sandbox image?

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Hi @statzhero,

Thanks for the report. You're correct, it appears the current Docker Sandbox images use a base image of Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka). While our latest Noble images have library loading issues, our Manylinux portable binaries should be generally suitable for use with this distribution.

Setting your R repos to the following should allow binary installation:

options(repos = c(CRAN = sprintf("https://p3m.dev/cran/latest/bin/linux/manylinux_2_28-%s/%s", R.version["arch"], substr(getRversion(), 1, 3))))

Or other instructions on our Setup page here: Posit Package Manager

Let us know if that works for you.

Cheers,
Joe