The library alone is not enough... you have to have the development headers for compiling code against the library.
On May 28, 2020 10:03:18 PM PDT, John via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: >I'm not certain just what this problem is. Trying to install the >"curl" package, which "tseries" wants results in the following error: > >**** >Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path. >Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc' >to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable >Package 'libcurl', required by 'virtual:world', not found >Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path. >Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc' >to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable >Package 'libcurl', required by 'virtual:world', not found >Using PKG_CFLAGS= >Using PKG_LIBS=-lcurl >------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR --------------------------- >Configuration failed because libcurl was not found. Try installing: > * deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc) > * rpm: libcurl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL) > * csw: libcurl_dev (Solaris) >If libcurl is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your >PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a libcurl.pc file. If pkg-config >is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via: >R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...' >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘curl’ >* removing ‘/home/john/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.6/curl’ >Warning in install.packages : > installation of package ‘curl’ had non-zero exit status >**** > >However, libcurl is installed, installed. What does seem to missing is >"libcurl.pc". The ../pkgconfig directory contains a number of >different *.pc files, but not that one. I'm asking here first because >someone else may have already encountered and solved this. I'm running >Fedora 32 with kde on a 4 X AMD system. I just updated Fedora. > >JWDougherty > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
