Hi Dirk, thanks a lot for your quick replay.
Now, the installation is done ! Cheers, Christian Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > 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 > > -- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ 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.
