Hi all,
I am writing to report a compatibility issue when running RStudio Server on RHEL 10, which appears to be related to an unresolved dependency on OpenSSL 1.1.1.
System environment
- OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (x86_64)
- RStudio Server: installed via RPM (non-containerized)
- Access method: browser connection to port 8787 (service managed by systemd)
Observed behavior
The rstudio-server service fails to start, and the browser reports a generic “jsonrpc error 1” upon connection attempt.
From journalctl -u rstudio-server, the service repeatedly fails with the following error:
/usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Analysis
On RHEL 10, OpenSSL 1.1.1 is no longer provided, and the legacy compatibility package (compat-openssl11) has been removed. Only OpenSSL 3.x is available on this platform. This suggests that the RStudio Server binary I installed is still dynamically linked against libssl.so.1.1, which prevents it from running on RHEL 10 systems.
Question
Could you please advise whether there is an official RStudio Server build fully compatible with RHEL 10 and OpenSSL 3?
I would be happy to provide additional logs or system details if helpful.
Thank you very much for your time
Best,
Zack