Hello, I've tried to install the package goseq with:

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("goseq")

But I get

* installing *source* package ‘curl’ ...
** package ‘curl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Found pkg-config cflags and libs!
Using PKG_CFLAGS=
Using PKG_LIBS=-lcurl
** libs
rm -f curl.so callbacks.o curl.o download.o escape.o fetch.o form.o getdate.o handle.o ieproxy.o init.o interrupt.o multi.o nslookup.o reflist.o split.o ssl.o typechecking.o utils.o version.o winidn.o writer.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I"/usr/local/lib64/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS  -I/usr/local/include  -fvisibility=hidden -fpic  -g -O2  -c callbacks.c -o callbacks.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I"/usr/local/lib64/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS  -I/usr/local/include  -fvisibility=hidden -fpic  -g -O2  -c curl.c -o curl.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I"/usr/local/lib64/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS  -I/usr/local/include  -fvisibility=hidden -fpic  -g -O2  -c download.c -o download.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I"/usr/local/lib64/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS  -I/usr/local/include  -fvisibility=hidden -fpic  -g -O2  -c escape.c -o escape.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I"/usr/local/lib64/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS  -I/usr/local/include  -fvisibility=hidden -fpic  -g -O2  -c fetch.c -o fetch.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I"/usr/local/lib64/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS  -I/usr/local/include  -fvisibility=hidden -fpic  -g -O2  -c form.c -o form.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I"/usr/local/lib64/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS  -I/usr/local/include  -fvisibility=hidden -fpic  -g -O2  -c getdate.c -o getdate.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I"/usr/local/lib64/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DSTRICT_R_HEADERS  -I/usr/local/include  -fvisibility=hidden -fpic  -g -O2  -c handle.c -o handle.o
handle.c:30:1: error: unknown type name ‘curl_sslbackend’
 curl_sslbackend default_ssl_backend;
 ^
make: *** [handle.o] Errore 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘curl’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/curl’
ERROR: dependency ‘curl’ is not available for package ‘httr’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/httr’
ERROR: dependency ‘httr’ is not available for package ‘biomaRt’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/biomaRt’
ERROR: dependency ‘biomaRt’ is not available for package ‘GenomicFeatures’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/GenomicFeatures’
ERROR: dependency ‘GenomicFeatures’ is not available for package ‘geneLenDataBase’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/geneLenDataBase’
ERROR: dependency ‘geneLenDataBase’ is not available for package ‘goseq’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/goseq’

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/Rtmp1BgAoA/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making 'packages.html' ... done
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages(pkgs = doing, lib = lib, repos = repos, ...) :
  installation of package ‘curl’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages(pkgs = doing, lib = lib, repos = repos, ...) :
  installation of package ‘httr’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages(pkgs = doing, lib = lib, repos = repos, ...) :
  installation of package ‘biomaRt’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages(pkgs = doing, lib = lib, repos = repos, ...) :
  installation of package ‘GenomicFeatures’ had non-zero exit status
5: In install.packages(pkgs = doing, lib = lib, repos = repos, ...) :
  installation of package ‘geneLenDataBase’ had non-zero exit status
6: In install.packages(pkgs = doing, lib = lib, repos = repos, ...) :
  installation of package ‘goseq’ had non-zero exit status

Here is my sessionInfo()

R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/local/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /usr/local/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=it_IT.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=it_IT.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=it_IT.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] BiocManager_1.30.4 compiler_3.5.3     tools_3.5.3

Any idea what could be wrong? Thanks in advance! If needed, I attach the whole log.

I've encountered the same thing and worked around it by installing the previous version of the curl package via:

install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/curl/curl_4.0.tar.gz", repo=NULL, type="source")

Not ideal, but it seems to work and allow the packages that depend on curl to be installed to.