[BioC] Problem installing goseq and RCurl

[Dave Tang]

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