r-base 3.6 & rstudio 1.2.1335 on Linux Mint 19.1 - cannot install packages

[louis_kreitmann]

Hey all!
I'm using r-base 3.6 and rstudio 1.2.1335 on a Linux Mint 19.1 platform and I cannot install packages, I always get the following type of error messages (this one is for the libcurl package):

------------------------- 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=...'

Any idea ?
Thanks

[mara]

You need to install libcurl4-openssl-dev on your system (not in R), it looks like.

@louis_kreitmann

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)