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

Question

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 new

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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)

Answer 5

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.