R help - Oct 2007 - problem with RCurl 0.8-1 installation on Debian Etch

Dear R-Users,

I am having some trouble getting an installation of RCurl 0.8-1 to work
properly on a Debian (Etch) machine.


The command 'R CMD INSTALL RCurl_0.8-1.tar.gz'  yields the following
error:

Installing *source* package 'RCurl' ...
checking for curl-config... no
Cannot find curl-config
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RCurl'

I do know that a file is missing (curl-config) but where to get it from?
I installed the latest 'curl' and 'libcurl3' packages via
apt-get install.
Furthermore, I crawled various mailing-lists to get my problem solved,
but without being lucky.

Do I miss mandatory packages that go beyond those two mentioned above?

My session data:
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
i686-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] rcompgen_0.1-15


Thanks in advance for any hint.

Christian

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Christian Kohler
Institute of Functional Genomics
Computational Diagnostics
University of Regensburg (BioPark I)
D-93147 Regensburg (Germany)

Tel. +49 941 943 5055
Fax  +49 941 943 5020
christian.kohler at klinik.uni-regensburg.de

Hi Christian,

On 16 October 2007 at 15:39, Christian Kohler wrote:
| Dear R-Users,
| 
| I am having some trouble getting an installation of RCurl 0.8-1 to work
| properly on a Debian (Etch) machine.
| 
| 
| The command 'R CMD INSTALL RCurl_0.8-1.tar.gz'  yields the following
error:
| 
| Installing *source* package 'RCurl' ...
| checking for curl-config... no
| Cannot find curl-config
| ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RCurl'
| 
| I do know that a file is missing (curl-config) but where to get it from?

That's basically always the same on Debian and Ubuntu (and to some degree on
RH et al):  Just because you have the __run-time__ library does not mean you
also have the __development__ package.

| I installed the latest 'curl' and 'libcurl3' packages via
apt-get install.
| Furthermore, I crawled various mailing-lists to get my problem solved,
| but without being lucky.
| 
| Do I miss mandatory packages that go beyond those two mentioned above?

Yes:

edd at ron:~> apt-cache search libcurl3-dev
libcurl4-openssl-dev - Development files and documentation for libcurl (OpenSSL)


That's package you want.  [ Curl is a little tricky because it has two dev
packages for TLS and OpenSSL; you probably want this one. ]


Also the r-sig-debian list is a great venue for Debian/Ubuntu-specific R
question.  

Cheers, Dirk

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