Problems installing Rcurl
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@martino-barenco-278
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Hello list, I am trying to install Rcurl under Mint/Ubuntu. I installed curl 7.19.5-1 ubuntu2 using synaptic, the binary package manager but when I try to locate curl-config as specified in the FAQ, it is nowhere to be found. So I suspect I might have installed curl only, when I needed to install curl-dev (again, this is specified in the FAQ). Now, the problem I have is that I cannot find that "curl-dev". Doing a search in synaptic returns the following options: libcurl-ocaml-dev libwww-curl-perl liblua5.1-curl-dev libghc6-curl-dev Is is one of the above? if not, what is the alternative, ie where can I find it* and how do I install it? Many thanks, Martino *I did try to follow the link in the FAQ (http://curl.haxx.se/ download.html), but it is not clear to me which option I should choose or even whether what I am looking for is there at all. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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@kasper-daniel-hansen-2979
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This is hard to answer as this is extremely distribution specific. Most distribution takes something like curl and splits it into two parts, a client library and a development library. How they do this and what the library is named is pretty artificial (although I am sure each distribution has some guidelines). Traditionally a development library would be called curl-devel and it does not seem to be any of the ones you are listing (perhaps the first one). It might even be that there is no split into two libraries for a given distribution. If you cannot find it using the standard search toosl for your distribution, you need to ask people who use your distribution (which means a different email list). Kasper On Jan 15, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Martino Barenco wrote: > Hello list, > > I am trying to install Rcurl under Mint/Ubuntu. I installed curl > 7.19.5-1 ubuntu2 using synaptic, the binary package manager but when > I try to locate curl-config as specified in the FAQ, it is nowhere to > be found. So I suspect I might have installed curl only, when I > needed to install curl-dev (again, this is specified in the FAQ). > Now, the problem I have is that I cannot find that "curl-dev". Doing > a search in synaptic returns the following options: > > libcurl-ocaml-dev > libwww-curl-perl > liblua5.1-curl-dev > libghc6-curl-dev > > Is is one of the above? if not, what is the alternative, ie where can > I find it* and how do I install it? > > Many thanks, > > Martino > > *I did try to follow the link in the FAQ (http://curl.haxx.se/ > download.html), but it is not clear to me which option I should > choose or even whether what I am looking for is there at all. > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor
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I followed the exact same instructions by Kachelo on my machine with Ubuntu 9.04 and it worked like a charm. Thanks, S. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen < khansen@stat.berkeley.edu> wrote: > This is hard to answer as this is extremely distribution specific. > > Most distribution takes something like curl and splits it into two parts, a > client library and a development library. How they do this and what the > library is named is pretty artificial (although I am sure each distribution > has some guidelines). Traditionally a development library would be called > curl-devel and it does not seem to be any of the ones you are listing > (perhaps the first one). It might even be that there is no split into two > libraries for a given distribution. > > If you cannot find it using the standard search toosl for your > distribution, you need to ask people who use your distribution (which means > a different email list). > > Kasper > > > > On Jan 15, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Martino Barenco wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > I am trying to install Rcurl under Mint/Ubuntu. I installed curl > > 7.19.5-1 ubuntu2 using synaptic, the binary package manager but when > > I try to locate curl-config as specified in the FAQ, it is nowhere to > > be found. So I suspect I might have installed curl only, when I > > needed to install curl-dev (again, this is specified in the FAQ). > > Now, the problem I have is that I cannot find that "curl-dev". Doing > > a search in synaptic returns the following options: > > > > libcurl-ocaml-dev > > libwww-curl-perl > > liblua5.1-curl-dev > > libghc6-curl-dev > > > > Is is one of the above? if not, what is the alternative, ie where can > > I find it* and how do I install it? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Martino > > > > *I did try to follow the link in the FAQ (http://curl.haxx.se/ > > download.html), but it is not clear to me which option I should > > choose or even whether what I am looking for is there at all. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioconductor mailing list > > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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Your welcome 2010/1/19 Sunny Srivastava <research.baba@gmail.com> > I followed the exact same instructions by Kachelo on my machine with Ubuntu > 9.04 and it worked like a charm. > > Thanks, > S. > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen < > khansen@stat.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > > This is hard to answer as this is extremely distribution specific. > > > > Most distribution takes something like curl and splits it into two parts, > a > > client library and a development library. How they do this and what the > > library is named is pretty artificial (although I am sure each > distribution > > has some guidelines). Traditionally a development library would be > called > > curl-devel and it does not seem to be any of the ones you are listing > > (perhaps the first one). It might even be that there is no split into > two > > libraries for a given distribution. > > > > If you cannot find it using the standard search toosl for your > > distribution, you need to ask people who use your distribution (which > means > > a different email list). > > > > Kasper > > > > > > > > On Jan 15, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Martino Barenco wrote: > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I am trying to install Rcurl under Mint/Ubuntu. I installed curl > > > 7.19.5-1 ubuntu2 using synaptic, the binary package manager but when > > > I try to locate curl-config as specified in the FAQ, it is nowhere to > > > be found. So I suspect I might have installed curl only, when I > > > needed to install curl-dev (again, this is specified in the FAQ). > > > Now, the problem I have is that I cannot find that "curl-dev". Doing > > > a search in synaptic returns the following options: > > > > > > libcurl-ocaml-dev > > > libwww-curl-perl > > > liblua5.1-curl-dev > > > libghc6-curl-dev > > > > > > Is is one of the above? if not, what is the alternative, ie where can > > > I find it* and how do I install it? > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > > > Martino > > > > > > *I did try to follow the link in the FAQ (http://curl.haxx.se/ > > > download.html), but it is not clear to me which option I should > > > choose or even whether what I am looking for is there at all. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bioconductor mailing list > > > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > > Search the archives: > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioconductor mailing list > > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > Search the archives: > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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Hi, I am the original poster and ended up solving my problem by typing sudo apt-get install libcurl-dev sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev This way, libcurl-dev is now tracked in synaptic. Thanks a lot for all the replies, Martino On 20 Jan 2010, at 12:57, Cristobal Fresno Rodríguez wrote: > Your welcome > > 2010/1/19 Sunny Srivastava <research.baba@gmail.com> > >> I followed the exact same instructions by Kachelo on my machine >> with Ubuntu >> 9.04 and it worked like a charm. >> >> Thanks, >> S. >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen < >> khansen@stat.berkeley.edu> wrote: >> >>> This is hard to answer as this is extremely distribution specific. >>> >>> Most distribution takes something like curl and splits it into >>> two parts, >> a >>> client library and a development library. How they do this and >>> what the >>> library is named is pretty artificial (although I am sure each >> distribution >>> has some guidelines). Traditionally a development library would be >> called >>> curl-devel and it does not seem to be any of the ones you are >>> listing >>> (perhaps the first one). It might even be that there is no split >>> into >> two >>> libraries for a given distribution. >>> >>> If you cannot find it using the standard search toosl for your >>> distribution, you need to ask people who use your distribution >>> (which >> means >>> a different email list). >>> >>> Kasper >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 15, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Martino Barenco wrote: >>> >>>> Hello list, >>>> >>>> I am trying to install Rcurl under Mint/Ubuntu. I installed curl >>>> 7.19.5-1 ubuntu2 using synaptic, the binary package manager but >>>> when >>>> I try to locate curl-config as specified in the FAQ, it is >>>> nowhere to >>>> be found. So I suspect I might have installed curl only, when I >>>> needed to install curl-dev (again, this is specified in the FAQ). >>>> Now, the problem I have is that I cannot find that "curl-dev". >>>> Doing >>>> a search in synaptic returns the following options: >>>> >>>> libcurl-ocaml-dev >>>> libwww-curl-perl >>>> liblua5.1-curl-dev >>>> libghc6-curl-dev >>>> >>>> Is is one of the above? if not, what is the alternative, ie >>>> where can >>>> I find it* and how do I install it? >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> >>>> Martino >>>> >>>> *I did try to follow the link in the FAQ (http://curl.haxx.se/ >>>> download.html), but it is not clear to me which option I should >>>> choose or even whether what I am looking for is there at all. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bioconductor mailing list >>>> Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >>>> Search the archives: >>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bioconductor mailing list >>> Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >>> Search the archives: >>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >>> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> Search the archives: >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/ > gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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Hi, RCurl needs as SystemRequirements: curl (version 7.14.0 or higher) http://curl.haxx.se download the source curl-7.19.7.tar.gz<http: curl.haxx.se="" download="" curl-7.19.7.tar.gz="">( http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.19.7.tar.gz) and compile it ./configure make make test (optional) make install then you have to see the installed version with curl-config, because RCurl use it to check (I had to reboot) $ curl-config --version libcurl 7.19.7 then install RCurl. Download the source, extract it and install it it. R CMD INSTALL <rcurl extracted="" directory=""> Hope it works Kachelo 2010/1/15 Martino Barenco <sejjmba@ucl.ac.uk> > Hello list, > > I am trying to install Rcurl under Mint/Ubuntu. I installed curl > 7.19.5-1 ubuntu2 using synaptic, the binary package manager but when > I try to locate curl-config as specified in the FAQ, it is nowhere to > be found. So I suspect I might have installed curl only, when I > needed to install curl-dev (again, this is specified in the FAQ). > Now, the problem I have is that I cannot find that "curl-dev". Doing > a search in synaptic returns the following options: > > libcurl-ocaml-dev > libwww-curl-perl > liblua5.1-curl-dev > libghc6-curl-dev > > Is is one of the above? if not, what is the alternative, ie where can > I find it* and how do I install it? > > Many thanks, > > Martino > > *I did try to follow the link in the FAQ (http://curl.haxx.se/ > download.html), but it is not clear to me which option I should > choose or even whether what I am looking for is there at all. > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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