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Tangent3
Tangent3

Reputation: 1043

Installing R on Linux: configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required with support for https

My issue is this:

Rigth now i have R 3.2 wooden xmas tree version, but theres some packages I need that dosent work on this version, so when i try to install the newest version, with

./configure

It returns the next error 

configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required with support for https

I have a package called libcurl3 installed. And its already in the last version.

Ill appreciate any help.

Note: I'm using Ubuntu based Peppermint 7 OS

Upvotes: 30

Views: 33132

Answers (9)

Eli Holmes
Eli Holmes

Reputation: 676

Ubuntu 22.04 My PATH looked liked this.

/srv/conda/condabin:/srv/conda/envs/notebook/bin:/srv/conda/bin:/srv/npm/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:

The libcurl in conda env was causing multiple problems while building R from source. First error was that there was a header mismatch with ICU. conda had ICU vrs 75 while libcurl that R was using had ICU vrs 70. Second problem was the https issue.

I solved with these lines. CURL_CONFIG is a R build env variable.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
CURL_CONFIG=/usr/bin/curl-config

Before running the make command for R building from source. The CURL_CONFIG was needed because even after setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH,

which curl showed /usr/bin/curl while which curl-config showed /srv/conda/envs/notebook/bin/curl-config

Awful.

Upvotes: 0

Bioinfotec
Bioinfotec

Reputation: 93

I encountered the same solution with conda environment activated. After I deactivate the environment, I succeed. So before ./configure, just:

conda deactivate base
./configure

Upvotes: 3

Ahmad H. Ibrahim
Ahmad H. Ibrahim

Reputation: 1079

Supposing that you have a sudo privileges, run the following command to download the latest version of libcurl

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

Upvotes: 1

Thịnh Đoàn Vũ
Thịnh Đoàn Vũ

Reputation: 11

I solved my problem like this:

  1. download curl-7.77.0 and run code: ./configure --with-ssl
  2. Then I download R version 4.1.0, run ./configure again

Upvotes: 1

nasica88
nasica88

Reputation: 1205

In my case, it was due to libcurl installed in anaconda2 package, whose libcurl version did not support https.
I removed the path to anaconda2 from PATH variable, and it was all fixed.

Upvotes: 15

raviabhiram
raviabhiram

Reputation: 720

I had the same problem on centos 7. I fixed it by installing the libcurl-devel. The mistake I had made was that I just had libcurl installed and not it's development packages.

Upvotes: 5

JereB
JereB

Reputation: 137

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 16.04LTS. Unfortunately installing libcurl4-openssl-dev did not solve the issue. However, installing libcurl4-gnutls-dev did work.

Upvotes: 2

leo
leo

Reputation: 11

I had the similar problem. First, you need to look into the config.log file to find out the real error. For example, mine is shown as:

/usr/include/string.h:548:5: error: unknown type name '__locale_t' __locale_t __loc)

Which would be a problem due to the gcc I used. Then you can solve the problem based solving this issue, in my case, change another version of gcc works for me.

Upvotes: -1

Semyon Poliakov
Semyon Poliakov

Reputation: 344

I had similar problem, and I solve it by installing libcurl4-openssl-dev. This is one of packages, which R could use (R manual https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/curl/index.html)

Upvotes: 32

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