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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> 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 -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.