On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:15:51 +0900, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at="" fhcrc.org=""> wrote: > On 10/31/2012 08:47 AM, Dave Tang wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:06:21 +0900, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at="" fhcrc.org=""> >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Dave Tang >>> <davetingpongtang at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: >>>> Hi Dan, >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:43:35 +0900, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at="" fhcrc.org=""> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> What Linux distribution are you running? >>>>> If ubuntu, try: >>>>> sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev >>>>> (this is from http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/FAQ.html) >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm working on a shared server where I don't have admin privileges >>>> and it's >>>> running Centos 5. >>>> >>>> I guess I should just get the admin to update curl? Is that the actual >>>> problem? >>> >>> I am not sure what the actual problem is. But in many cases, >>> installing libcurl with the OS's package installer does seem to fix >>> the problem. >>> Dan >> >> I got the admin to install the latest version of curl and the >> libcurl.so.4 >> library file is now in /usr/local/lib but I still get the same error >> when trying >> to install RCurl on CentOS release 5.8 (Final): > > It's the -dev extension on Dan's suggestion that is probably throwing > you off -- you need to have the header files for the library, in > addition to the library per se. Thank you Dan and Martin for the suggestions. I couldn't figure out how to obtain the "linkable" library for CentOS 5 (to instruct the admin) and I'm not sure how the admin installed curl, since there are now two copies of curl and curl-config (the old and new version). I will just do the goseq analysis on my own Ubuntu box. Thanks again for your help, Dave

On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:57:05 +0900, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at="" fhcrc.org=""> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Dave Tang <davetingpongtang at="" gmail.com=""> > wrote: >> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:15:51 +0900, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at="" fhcrc.org=""> >> wrote: >> >>> On 10/31/2012 08:47 AM, Dave Tang wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:06:21 +0900, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at="" fhcrc.org=""> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Dave Tang >>>>> <davetingpongtang at="" gmail.com=""> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Dan, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:43:35 +0900, Dan Tenenbaum >>>>>> <dtenenba at="" fhcrc.org=""> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> What Linux distribution are you running? >>>>>>> If ubuntu, try: >>>>>>> sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev >>>>>>> (this is from http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/FAQ.html) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm working on a shared server where I don't have admin privileges >>>>>> and >>>>>> it's >>>>>> running Centos 5. >>>>>> >>>>>> I guess I should just get the admin to update curl? Is that the >>>>>> actual >>>>>> problem? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I am not sure what the actual problem is. But in many cases, >>>>> installing libcurl with the OS's package installer does seem to fix >>>>> the problem. >>>>> Dan >>>> >>>> >>>> I got the admin to install the latest version of curl and the >>>> libcurl.so.4 >>>> library file is now in /usr/local/lib but I still get the same error >>>> when >>>> trying >>>> to install RCurl on CentOS release 5.8 (Final): >>> >>> >>> It's the -dev extension on Dan's suggestion that is probably throwing >>> you >>> off -- you need to have the header files for the library, in addition >>> to the >>> library per se. >> >> >> Thank you Dan and Martin for the suggestions. >> >> I couldn't figure out how to obtain the "linkable" library for CentOS 5 >> (to >> instruct the admin) and I'm not sure how the admin installed curl, since >> there are now two copies of curl and curl-config (the old and new >> version). >> > > > I think the name of the RPM that your admin should install is > "libcurl-devel". Hi Dan, Right you are! I could finally install RCurl and consequently goseq. Thank you so much for your help. Cheers, -- Dave