RSTUDIO: on fedora 30, error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.10

Starting rstudio results in the following error:

$ rstudio
rstudio: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

it looks like a 32 bit ssl lib is missing, but the package is a 64 bit one on a 64 bit workstation...

Background information:

On a fresh installed fedora 30 workstation 64 bit I installed R:

R --version

R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11) -- Great Truth
Copyright (C) 2019 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Then I installed the rpm package from official rstudio website:

dnf info rstudio

Name : rstudio
Version : 1.2.1335
Rilascio : 1
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 576 M
Sorgente : rstudio-1.2.1335-1.src.rpm

The real file used for installation is : rstudio-1.2.1335-x86_64.rpm. I don't know why the name doesn't match with the dnf answer.

The problem here is that Fedora uses OpenSSL 1.1, while that version of RStudio expects to find OpenSSL 1.0:

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We'll likely need to produce a new build of RStudio for Fedora 30 and above.

See also: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/4612

Got it, would be nice having an advice about this known probelm right on the right of the downland link.

Thanks for your help.
s.

From the discussion you mentioned ( https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/4612 )the temporary solution for fedora 30 is to install compat-openssl10.

From the package description:

" This version of OpenSSL package contains only the libraries
and is provided for compatibility with previous releases and software
that does not support compilation with OpenSSL-1.1. "

to install:
dnf install compat-openssl10.x86_64

After the installation rstudio starts normally.

Thanks
s.

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