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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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