[BioC] Problem installing goseq and RCurl

[Dave Tang]

On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:57:05 +0900, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>  
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Dave Tang <davetingpongtang at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:15:51 +0900, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/31/2012 08:47 AM, Dave Tang wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:06:21 +0900, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Dave Tang  
>>>>> <davetingpongtang at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:43:35 +0900, Dan Tenenbaum  
>>>>>> <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What Linux distribution are you running?
>>>>>>> If ubuntu, try:
>>>>>>> sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
>>>>>>> (this is from http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/FAQ.html)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm working on a shared server where I don't have admin privileges  
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> it's
>>>>>> running Centos 5.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess I should just get the admin to update curl? Is that the  
>>>>>> actual
>>>>>> problem?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not sure what the actual problem is. But in many cases,
>>>>> installing libcurl with the OS's package installer does seem to fix
>>>>> the problem.
>>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I got the admin to install the latest version of curl and the
>>>> libcurl.so.4
>>>> library file is now in /usr/local/lib but I still get the same error  
>>>> when
>>>> trying
>>>> to install RCurl on CentOS release 5.8 (Final):
>>>
>>>
>>> It's the -dev extension on Dan's suggestion that is probably throwing  
>>> you
>>> off -- you need to have the header files for the library, in addition  
>>> to the
>>> library per se.
>>
>>
>> Thank you Dan and Martin for the suggestions.
>>
>> I couldn't figure out how to obtain the "linkable" library for CentOS 5  
>> (to
>> instruct the admin) and I'm not sure how the admin installed curl, since
>> there are now two copies of curl and curl-config (the old and new  
>> version).
>>
>
>
> I think the name of the RPM that your admin should install is  
> "libcurl-devel".

Hi Dan,

Right you are! I could finally install RCurl and consequently goseq.

Thank you so much for your help.

Cheers,


-- 
Dave