installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status on Ubuntu

Question

I\'m trying to install devtools in a PowerPC with a R version 3.1.1 but failed at the end because the curl library:

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Answer 1

For Curl use:

apt-get -y build-dep libcurl4-gnutls-dev
apt-get -y install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

And you should update the R version to R-3.1.2

wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.1.2.tar.gz