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 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

Answer 1

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 2

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.

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.