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Update Quarto in RStudio

I would like to update Quarto inside the terminal of Rstudio to v1.3.290. I followed the installation like described here, but I keep getting errors which I am not sure about. I runned the following code in Rstudio terminal:

wget https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v1.3.290/quarto-1.3.290-linux-amd64.tar.gz

and:

mkdir ~/opt
tar -C ~/opt -xvzf quarto-1.3.290-linux-amd64.tar.gz

So downloading and install works, but creating a symlink like this doesn't work:

mkdir ~/bin
ln -s ~/opt/quarto-1.3.290/bin/quarto ~/bin/quarto

Error:

ln -s ~/opt/quarto-1.3.290/bin/quarto ~/bin/quarto
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/quinten/bin’: File exists
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/quinten/bin/quarto': File exists

I am not sure how to fix this error. I think it is not possible to overwrite an already installed quarto version. So I was wondering if anyone understands how to fix this error?

Please note: I am currently using Linux

Solution

  • First, you should download the right folder here. Make sure you are in the right path of the terminal where the downloaded folder is. After that you can use the following command:

    sudo apt install ./quarto-1.3.294-linux-amd64.deb

    This should install the version. Make sure you restart R and Rstudio.