Installing RKWard on Linux/Unix: Binaries and build instructions

This page provides links to the relevant information pages for the various distributions for which official or inofficial packages are available.

If your distribution is not listed, or does not provide an up-to-date-package, consider building RKWard from source, and/or filing a support ticket against your distribution. In most cases you will still be able to use the latest AppImage (see below).

AppImage

Starting with version 0.8.0, RKWard is available in AppImage packaging: Download the package, set the executable bit, and it should run on most current distributions (it is advised to install R, separately).

• AppImages of offical releases: https://download.kde.org/stable/rkward/.
• Development versions: https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/education/rkward/master/.

An RKWard plugin to automate the process of downloading a new development AppImage can be found at: https://github.com/rkward-community/rk.downloadAppImage.

Debian

RKWard package in debian: https://packages.debian.org/sid/rkward

Ubuntu

RKWard package in debian: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=rkward&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all

Project-provided Ubuntu repositories

Several current releases of Ubuntu do not yet provide the required KF6 frameworks for RKWard 0.8.0 and above. Should the below PPAs fail to offer the current version of RKWard (0.8.1), it is recommended to use the AppImage!

We provide a variety of automated builds for Ubuntu on our Launchpad project page:

• If you are using the version R shipped with Ubuntu by default:
  • The latest stable release of RKWard: https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel/+archive/rkward-stable
  • Testing snapshots: https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel/+archive/rkward-devel
  • Daily development snapshots: https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel/+archive/rkward-kf5-dailys
• If you are using the CRAN version of R:
  • The latest stable release of RKWard: https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel/+archive/rkward-stable-cran
  • Testing snapshots: https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel/+archive/rkward-devel-cran
  • Daily development snapshots: https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel/+archive/rkward-kf5-dailys-cran

Gentoo

RKWard package in Gentoo: https://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-mathematics/rkward

FreeBSD

Information on the FreeBSD port of RKWard is here: https://www.freshports.org/math/rkward-kde/

SUSE / openSUSE

https://software.opensuse.org/package/rkward5

Current development version at the time of this writing: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:vojtaeus/rkward

Fedora

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rkward

ArchLinux

• Stable release: https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/rkward/