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]]