diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 222b886..8f36240 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: audit.workbench
 Title: RStudio/Workbench User Acceptance Tests
-Version: 0.6.24
+Version: 0.6.25
 Authors@R:
     person("Jumping", "Rivers", , "info@jumpingrivers.com", role = c("aut", "cre"))
 Description: Testing whether data scientists can do what they expect in
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Description: Testing whether data scientists can do what they expect in
 License: file LICENSE
 URL: https://jumpingrivers.github.io/audit.workbench/
 Imports:
-    audit.base (>= 0.7.2),
+    audit.base (>= 0.7.8),
     BiocManager,
     cli,
     dplyr,
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 814edb8..07b2c14 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# audit.workbench 0.6.25
+
+## Bug fixes and minor improvements
+
+* `check()` no longer stops outside the RStudio IDE when `rstudio-server` isn't on the `PATH`. It also looks in `/usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin`, and otherwise reports the Workbench version as unknown. Requires audit.base 0.7.8 (#38).
+
 # audit.workbench 0.6.24
 
 ## Bug fixes and minor improvements
diff --git a/R/check_posit_version.R b/R/check_posit_version.R
index 572ac30..159e525 100644
--- a/R/check_posit_version.R
+++ b/R/check_posit_version.R
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ check_posit_version = function() {
   if (requireNamespace("rstudioapi", quietly = TRUE) && rstudioapi::isAvailable()) {
     posit_version = rstudioapi::versionInfo()$long_version
   } else {
-    cmd = system2("rstudio-server", args = "version", stdout = TRUE)
-    posit_version = stringr::str_remove(cmd, " .*")
+    posit_version = rstudio_server_version()
   }
   posit_version = stringr::str_squish(posit_version)
 
@@ -14,3 +13,17 @@ check_posit_version = function() {
   audit.base::audit_posit_version(posit_version, type = "workbench")
   posit_version
 }
+
+# rstudio-server is often not on a user's PATH, so also look where Workbench installs it.
+# NA when it can't be found.
+rstudio_server_version = function(
+  paths = c(Sys.which("rstudio-server"), "/usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rstudio-server")
+) {
+  paths = paths[nzchar(paths) & file.exists(paths)]
+  if (length(paths) == 0L) {
+    cli::cli_alert_info("Can't find rstudio-server, so can't check the Workbench version")
+    return(NA_character_)
+  }
+  cmd = system2(paths[1L], args = "version", stdout = TRUE)
+  stringr::str_remove(cmd[1L], " .*")
+}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-check_posit_version.R b/tests/testthat/test-check_posit_version.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..552a600
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-check_posit_version.R
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+test_that("check_posit_version() works without rstudio-server on the PATH", {
+  testthat::local_mocked_bindings(isAvailable = function(...) FALSE, .package = "rstudioapi")
+  testthat::local_mocked_bindings(rstudio_server_version = function() NA_character_)
+  expect_message(version <- check_posit_version(), "Couldn't find") # nolint
+  expect_identical(version, NA_character_)
+})
+
+test_that("rstudio_server_version() looks beyond the PATH", {
+  expect_message(version <- rstudio_server_version(paths = ""), "rstudio-server") # nolint
+  expect_identical(version, NA_character_)
+
+  fake = withr::local_tempfile()
+  writeLines(c("#!/bin/sh", "echo '2026.09.1+401.pro2 Workbench (Pumpkin Spice)'"), fake)
+  Sys.chmod(fake, "755")
+  expect_identical(rstudio_server_version(paths = c("", fake)), "2026.09.1+401.pro2")
+})