2.4 Installing Rattle on Linux
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As of 20 August 2026 the Rattle version was 6.5.65.
Summary
For Ubuntu see Section 2.5, or Snap see Section 2.6.
For a generic Linux installation:
curl https://access.togaware.com/rattle-linux.zip -o rattle-linux.zip
unzip rattle-linux.zip -d rattle
./rattle/rattleDetails
To install Rattle on Linux we first need to ensure we have R and the recommended R pacakges installed as discussed in Section 2.1.
As a user it is also recommended to install the rattle package
manually before running rattle so that rattle itself can install any
missing R packages into the local user’s folder. To do so, run R
from a terminal at the $ prompt and enter the following command at
the R prompt >:
Once that finishes (after you have possibly been asked to create a
personal library for your R packages), type q() at the R prompt (and
choose n when asked to save the workspace image).
You are then ready to install the Rattle software. Begin by
downloading the
rattle-linux.zip. You
can do this by tapping on that link or else from the terminal command
line using curl as above.
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