I'm trying to install RCurl on an R 4.4.2 instance that runs on Ubuntu 22.04 (as a Jupyter Lab Docker container, spawned from a Jupyter Hub Docker container, all run on a host that is also Ubuntu 22.04, but I hope all this doesn't matter).
Running the simple install.packages("RCurl") first goes off well, but then runs into an error during the compilation:
x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc -I"/opt/conda/lib/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I/opt/conda/include -DCURL_DISABLE_DEPRECATION -DHAVE_LIBIDN_FIELD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_URL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_NAMELOOKUP_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SIZE_UPLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SPEED_DOWNLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SPEED_UPLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_FILETIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_PRIVATE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_HTTP_CONNECTCODE=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_AVAIL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_AVAIL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_SSL_ENGINES=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_COOKIELIST=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_PRIMARY_IP=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_APPCONNECT_TIME=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CERTINFO=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_CONDITION_UNMET=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_WRITEDATA=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_APPEND=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_USE_SSL=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_POSTREDIR=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETDATA=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SEEKDATA=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CRLFILE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CERTINFO=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_USERNAME=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_PASSWORD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_NOPROXY=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_TFTP_BLKSIZE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_NEC=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSH_AUTH_TYPES=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_COOKIELIST=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_LOCALPORT=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CONV_FROM_NETWORK_FUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CONV_TO_NETWORK_FUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_CONV_FROM_UTF8_FUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SOCKOPTDATA=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE=1 -I/opt/conda/include/libxml2 -I/opt/conda/include -DNDEBUG -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -isystem /opt/conda/include -I/opt/conda/include -Wl,-rpath-link,/opt/conda/lib -fpic -march=nocona -mtune=haswell -ftree-vectorize -fPIC -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -O2 -ffunction-sections -pipe -isystem /opt/conda/include -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/conda/feedstock_root/build_artifacts/r-base-split_1734433466103/work=/usr/local/src/conda/r-base-4.4.2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/opt/conda=/usr/local/src/conda-prefix -c myUTF8.c -o myUTF8.o
x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc -shared -L/opt/conda/lib/R/lib -Wl,-O2 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--disable-new-dtags -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined -Wl,-rpath,/opt/conda/lib -Wl,-rpath-link,/opt/conda/lib -L/opt/conda/lib -o RCurl.so base64.o curl.o curlInit.o curl_base64.o enums.o json.o memoryManagement.o myUTF8.o -L/opt/conda/lib -lcurl -L/opt/conda/lib -lxml2 -L/opt/conda/lib -lz -L/opt/conda/lib -llzma -L/opt/conda/lib -licui18n -licuuc -licudata -L/opt/conda/lib -liconv -lm -ldl -L/opt/conda/lib/R/lib -lR
/opt/conda/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu/14.2.0/../../../../x86_64-conda-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -llzma: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [/opt/conda/lib/R/share/make/shlib.mk:10: RCurl.so] Error 1
out of which I'll repeat the most interesting line no. 3 again here:
/opt/conda/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu/14.2.0/../../../../x86_64-conda-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -llzma: No such file or directory
I tried a lot of things, including to apt install (on the "inner-most" Ubuntu) liblzma-dev, lzma-dev, lzma, libcurl4-gnutls-dev, and probably even more that I now forget to list, as suggested by various posts I came across in the past hours. I also tried this BiocManager approach, without luck.
In case that's relevant, conda and mamba are involved when spawning the Jupyter Lab, but I tried to install directly in the running instance because changing the Dockerfile and building the base again takes ages.
I'm not even sure if the problem is that something is not installed or rather the command treating something as a path that is supposed to just be a flag?!
I would be glad for any pointers.
The installer pulls .98-1.16.tar.gz.