Hi,
RCurl needs as
SystemRequirements: curl (version 7.14.0 or higher) http://curl.haxx.se
download the source
curl-7.19.7.tar.gz<http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.19.7.tar.gz>(
http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.19.7.tar.gz) and compile it

./configure
make
make test (optional)
make install

then you have to see the installed version with curl-config, because RCurl
use it to check (I had to reboot)

$ curl-config --version
libcurl 7.19.7

then install RCurl. Download the source, extract it and install it it.
R CMD INSTALL <RCurl extracted directory>

Hope it works
Kachelo

2010/1/15 Martino Barenco <sejjmba@ucl.ac.uk>

> 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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