ERROR for package ‘curl’ Linux Ubuntu

[caduguimaraes]

Dear All.

I'm not able installing 'usethis' library at my Linux Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS. The follow error is shown:

install.packages("usethis")
Installing package into ‘/home/cadu_guimaraes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘credentials’, ‘httr2’, ‘curl’, ‘gert’, ‘gh’

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/credentials_2.0.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 283111 bytes (276 KB)
==================================================
  downloaded 276 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/httr2_1.0.7.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 241007 bytes (235 KB)
==================================================
  downloaded 235 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/curl_6.1.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 932957 bytes (911 KB)
==================================================
  downloaded 911 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/gert_2.1.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 122659 bytes (119 KB)
==================================================
  downloaded 119 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/gh_1.4.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 46164 bytes (45 KB)
==================================================
  downloaded 45 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/usethis_3.1.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 384582 bytes (375 KB)
==================================================
  downloaded 375 KB

* installing *source* package ‘curl’ ...
** package ‘curl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
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] --------------------------------
  Configuration failed because libcurl was not found. Try installing:
  * deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
* rpm: libcurl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
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 MESSAGE] ---------------------------
  <stdin>:1:10: fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
  ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘curl’
* removing ‘/home/cadu_guimaraes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/curl’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘curl’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘curl’ is not available for package ‘credentials’
* removing ‘/home/cadu_guimaraes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/credentials’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘credentials’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘curl’ is not available for package ‘httr2’
* removing ‘/home/cadu_guimaraes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/httr2’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘httr2’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘credentials’ is not available for package ‘gert’
* removing ‘/home/cadu_guimaraes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/gert’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘gert’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘httr2’ is not available for package ‘gh’
* removing ‘/home/cadu_guimaraes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/gh’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘gh’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependencies ‘curl’, ‘gert’, ‘gh’ are not available for package ‘usethis’
* removing ‘/home/cadu_guimaraes/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/usethis’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘usethis’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpgERhkM/downloaded_packages’
#> Error in parse(text = input): <text>:2:12: unexpected symbol
#> 1: install.packages("usethis")
#> 2: Installing package
#> 

Is there a way to solve it?

Thanks in advance
CEG

[jennybc]

Here's an excerpt from the above that should get you on the right track to resolving this:

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] --------------------------------
  Configuration failed because libcurl was not found. Try installing:
  * deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
* rpm: libcurl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
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=...'