Re: Running open source shiny server on Debian

It could well be just my ignorance, but your post seems to have little to
directly do with R. Have you tried posting it on the Posit community forum:
https://forum.posit.co/  ?

Cheers,
Bert

On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 9:11=E2=80=AFAM Chris Evans via R-help <r-help@r-pr=
oject.org>
wrote:

> Apologies that this is at the edge/corner of R-help but I think at least
> some of the key issues are R ones.
>
> I am a retired clinician continuing to do pro bono research but have
> zero research income.  However, I have run a little public service shiny
> server (https://shiny.psyctc.org) since early 2024 and want to continue
> with it and expand it.   (See
> https://www.psyctc.org/Analysing_shiny_usage.html for too much
> information about its use if that interests you!)
>
> Recently my excellent ISP wanted to upgrade their various servers,
> including that one.  They are pretty much FLOSS only and happy that I
> use R but they are not R or shiny experts though, in my view, superb for
> general ISP Email and web server support on Debian.
>
> They said that they were finding it hard to be sure of running the open
> source shiny server on Debian and I can find no recent information on
> this and see that Posit say that their OS shiny server is only
> installable on:
>     Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and higher
>     Ubuntu 22.04 and higher (LTS releases only)
>     SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7
> (from https://docs.posit.co/shiny-server/)
>
> They did do the upgrade of the server to bookworm and the shiny server
> is now on R 4.2.2.  The apps are all runnning OK (and they are mostly
> very simple) but this is clearly not good to be using a version of R
> that is four years old.
>
> So could anyone point me to any information about installing the OS
> shiny server on Debian bookworm or trixie and using a recent R.
>
> I am asking here before stepping into the time consuming process of
> installing a VM manager on my own Ubuntu machine, and then installing
> bookworm or trixie as VMs and trying to explore this myself.  I know
> that would be taking me to the limits of my competences (I am a
> psychotherapist and fairly competent data analyst not a server manager
> or programmer!) and using up hours of work time!!
>
> TIA and thanks for umpteen (>=3D17) years of learning from r-help,
>
> Chris
> ---
> Chris Evans
> Visiting Professor, UDLA, Quito, Ecuador
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> Personal site: https://www.psyctc.org/pelerinage2016/
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