Re: [R] issue on installation of RCurl on Debian Wheezy

2014-12-24 Thread mbressan
yes, exactly! all these dependencies were missing plus some other were corrupted (but frankly I do not know why and how) now everything seems working fine... thanks a lot my best season's greetings m > I think you need to have curl-config installed. I had a similar > problem on Ubuntu and fo

Re: [R] issue on installation of RCurl on Debian Wheezy

2014-12-23 Thread Michael Hannon
I think you need to have curl-config installed. I had a similar problem on Ubuntu and found the program in various packages:. $ apt-file search curl-config | grep bin libcurl4-gnutls-dev: /usr/bin/curl-config libcurl4-nss-dev: /usr/bin/curl-config libcurl4-openssl-dev: /usr/bin/cu

Re: [R] issue on installation of RCurl on Debian Wheezy

2014-12-23 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Do you have curl installed? RCurl just uses your external-to-R system installation of the curl software to do its real work. --- Jeff NewmillerThe . . Go Live... DCN:Basics: #

Re: [R] issue on installation of RCurl on Debian Wheezy

2014-12-23 Thread Rolf Turner
The error message is quite clear: It says that you are missing "curl-config" on your system: > checking for curl-config... no > Cannot find curl-config On my Fedora system I would do: yum whatprovides curl-config and I would get: libcurl-devel-7.24.0-2.fc17.x86_64 : Files needed for buildin

[R] issue on installation of RCurl on Debian Wheezy

2014-12-23 Thread maxbre
I must say I'm pretty new to Linux Debian and R so I might miss here reporting some relevant information (just in case, sorry for that!); I've been looking around the web and also onto this mailing list - and indeed this topic has been already covered-, but still I can't find any useful solution to