That seems OK.  Are you trying to install the RCurl package from source?
 IIRC, the "configure" script is commonly used in GNU-style,
compile-from-source installations.

-- Mike


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Rainer Schuermann <rainer.schuerm...@gmx.net
> wrote:

> #  ls -l `which curl-config`
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6327 Oct 20 15:25 /usr/bin/curl-config
>
>
>
> On Friday 01 November 2013 20:21:36 Michael Hannon wrote:
> > The error message doesn't seem to refer to the tmp directory.  What do
> you
> > get from:
> >
> >     ls -l `which curl-config`
> >
> > -- Mike
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Rainer Schuermann <
> rainer.schuerm...@gmx.net
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to install.packages( "RCurl" ) as root but get
> > > ERROR: 'configure' exists but is not executable
> > >
> > > I remember having had something like that before on another machine and
> > > tried in bash what is described here
> > > http://mazamascience.com/WorkingWithData/?p=1185
> > > and helped me before:
> > > # mkdir ~/tmp
> > > # export TMPDIR=~/tmp
> > > and added, just in case,
> > > # chmod u+x $TMPDIR
> > >
> > > which apparently does what it should
> > > # ls -ld $TMPDIR
> > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Nov  1 08:59 /root/tmp
> > >
> > > but it doesn't help, I get the same error.
> > >
> > > What else can I try?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Rainer
> > >
> > >
> > > > sessionInfo()
> > > R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> > > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> > >
> > > locale:
> > >  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> > >  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> > >  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> > >  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> > >  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> > > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> > >
> > > attached base packages:
> > > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> > >
> > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > > [1] tools_3.0.2
> > >
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