installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status on Ubuntu

Question

I\'m trying to install devtools in a PowerPC with a R version 3.1.1 but failed at the end because the curl library:

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Answer 1

I m using Ubuntu 16.04 and this is how I solved this issue:

aptitude install libssl-dev

then aptitude packg manage will allow you to choose the right version which is required for installation of devtools. Repeat the same for

aptitude libcurl4-gnutls-dev
aptitude libxml2-dev

Finally, install this libgit2 lib

devtools::install_github('ropensci/git2r')
devtools::load_all()
R CMD INSTALL git2r

I could not solve it with apt-get packg manager. Thats all :) !