This will help you solve your problem
http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/FAQ.html

-Garrett

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Axel Urbiz <axel.urbiz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> When I try to install tweetR on Ubuntu, I get the error message below. It
> is
> a problem with the dependency RCurl. This package is not available for
> Windows on CRAN, but I would assume that I should have no problem with
> linux.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> R version: 2.12.1
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
> checking for curl-config... no
> Cannot find curl-config
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
> * removing ‘/home/leo/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/RCurl’
> ERROR: dependency ‘RCurl’ is not available for package ‘twitteR’
> * removing ‘/home/leo/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/twitteR’
>
>
> Regards,
> Axel.
>
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