The one strange thing I am now noticing is that precise does not have libcurl listed as a dependency. If you go to https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/precise/Packages and look for "libcurl" it is not listed. The other Ubuntu builds, such as trusty or wily do list it.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Michael Coyne <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the advice. Going to look into this more this evening and > hopefully get everything working. > > Thanks again! > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 5 November 2015 at 11:44, Michael Coyne wrote: >> | What do you have installed as far as libcurl goes? Would you mind >> | listing your packages and greping for libcurl entries. >> >> The distribution works with proper dependencies. When R is built with >> libcurl, the R package already depends on libcurl: >> >> edd@max:~$ dpkg -s r-base-core | grep curl >> Depends: zip, unzip, libpaper-utils, xdg-utils, libblas3 | libblas.so.3, >> libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.16), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libcurl3 (>= 7.28.0), >> libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgomp1 (>= 4.9), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblapack3 | >> liblapack.so.3, liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libpango-1.0-0 (>= >> 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpcre3, libpng12-0 (>= >> 1.2.13-4), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libtcl8.6 (>= 8.6.0), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), >> libtk8.6 (>= 8.6.0), libx11-6, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), ucf (>= 3.0), >> ca-certificates >> edd@max:~$ >> >> Now, you have a point in that there are several curl packages available >> within Debian / Ubuntu. Here I use this: >> >> edd@max:~$ COLUMNS=110 dpkg -l | grep "^ii libcurl" | cut -c-78 >> ii libcurl3:amd64 7.38.0-3ubuntu2 amd64 easy-to-use >> client-s >> ii libcurl3:i386 7.38.0-3ubuntu2 i386 easy-to-use >> client-s >> ii libcurl3-gnutls:amd64 7.38.0-3ubuntu2 amd64 easy-to-use >> client-s >> ii libcurl3-nss:amd64 7.38.0-3ubuntu2 amd64 easy-to-use >> client-s >> ii libcurl4-openssl-dev: 7.38.0-3ubuntu2 amd64 development files >> an >> edd@max:~$ >> >> Now, I happen to deploy a fair number of similar machines also usuing Ubuntu >> 15.04 and work and _not one had issues_ when we switched to https for CRAN >> repos. But one critical thing you may be overlooking with R _before version >> 3.2.2_ is that you had to turn it on via options(): >> >> ‘download.file.method’: Method to be used for ‘download.file’. >> Currently download methods ‘"internal"’, ‘"wininet"’ (Windows >> only), ‘"libcurl"’, ‘"wget"’ and ‘"curl"’ are available. If >> not set, ‘method = "auto"’ is chosen: see ‘download.file’. >> >> So play with that and download.file. >> >> Dirk >> >> >> | >> | Perhaps I need some libcurl debs installed when I install r-base? >> | >> | On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: >> | > >> | > On 5 November 2015 at 11:11, Michael Coyne wrote: >> | > | Hello, >> | > | >> | > | I'm install R from a package off of >> | > | https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/. The install works fine >> | > | but it does not support libcurl as indicated by executing >> | > | "capabilities('libcurl')". As such, I cannot install packages from >> | > | HTTPS sources. >> | > | >> | > | How can I install R from a package with libcurl support? Is this >> | > | possible or do I need to manually build R from source and compile it >> | > | with libcurl support directly. >> | > >> | > Read the README in that very directory, ie at >> | > >> | > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ >> | > >> | > and install the pre-built R: >> | > >> | > R> capabilities()["libcurl"] >> | > libcurl >> | > TRUE >> | > R> >> | > >> | > I am using >> | > >> | > edd@max:~$ COLUMNS=72 dpkg -l | grep "ii r-base" >> | > ii r-base-core 3.2.2-1vivid amd64 GNU R core of statistical >> computa >> | > ii r-base-core-db 3.2.2-1vivid amd64 GNU R debug symbols for >> statistic >> | > ii r-base-dev 3.2.2-1vivid all GNU R installation of >> auxiliary G >> | > ii r-base-html 3.2.2-1vivid all GNU R html docs for >> statistical c >> | > edd@max:~$ >> | > >> | > Dirk >> | > >> | > -- >> | > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] >> | >> | >> | >> | -- >> | http://about.michaeljcoyne.me >> >> -- >> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] > > > > -- > http://about.michaeljcoyne.me -- http://about.michaeljcoyne.me _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
