[R] Package installation problem

[Eric Berger]

Hi John,
This is a bit off-topic for this mailing list as your issue is a
linux, specifically Fedora, issue, and not R.
I don't use Fedora but I did a quick Google search on

 fedora missing package .pc file

and that came back with a lot of hits. This one in particular should
be a good place to start.
It gives some explanation as to when installation will result in a .pc
file (seems to relate to -dev versions).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33050517/supply-pc-file-for-pkg-config

HTH,
Eric


On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 8:03 AM John via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>
> I'm not certain just what this problem is.  Trying to install the
> "curl" package, which "tseries" wants results in the following error:
>
> ****
> Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> Package 'libcurl', required by 'virtual:world', not found
> Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> Package 'libcurl', required by 'virtual:world', not found
> Using PKG_CFLAGS=
> Using PKG_LIBS=-lcurl
> ------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
> Configuration failed because libcurl was not found. Try installing:
>  * deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
>  * rpm: libcurl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
>  * csw: libcurl_dev (Solaris)
> If libcurl is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
> PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a libcurl.pc file. If pkg-config
> is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
> R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘curl’
> * removing ‘/home/john/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.6/curl’
> Warning in install.packages :
>   installation of package ‘curl’ had non-zero exit status
> ****
>
> However, libcurl is installed, installed.  What does seem to missing is
> "libcurl.pc".  The ../pkgconfig directory contains a number of
> different *.pc files, but not that one.  I'm asking here first because
> someone else may have already encountered and solved this.  I'm running
> Fedora 32 with kde on a 4 X AMD system.  I just updated Fedora.
>
> JWDougherty
>
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