[BioC] RCurl problem

[Ina Hoeschele]

Hi all, 
  sorry for this silly problem. I'm trying to install biomaRt on a new PC and there seems to be a problem with the required RCurl, please see below. Can someone give me a hint?
Thanks, Ina

* installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
** package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for curl-config... no
Cannot find curl-config
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
* removing ‘/home/inah/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/RCurl’

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmpWLdm34/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("RCurl") :
  installation of package ‘RCurl’ had non-zero exit status

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
[8] base     

other attached packages:
 [1] canine2.db_2.7.1     org.Cf.eg.db_2.7.1   RSQLite_0.11.1      
 [4] DBI_0.2-5            annotate_1.34.0      AnnotationDbi_1.18.0
 [7] made4_1.30.0         scatterplot3d_0.3-33 gplots_2.10.1       
[10] KernSmooth_2.23-7    caTools_1.12         bitops_1.0-4.1      
[13] gdata_2.8.2          gtools_2.6.2         RColorBrewer_1.0-5  
[16] ade4_1.5-0           affy_1.34.0          Biobase_2.16.0      
[19] BiocGenerics_0.2.0   BiocInstaller_1.4.3  limma_3.12.0        

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] affyio_1.24.0         IRanges_1.14.2        preprocessCore_1.18.0
[4] stats4_2.15.0         tcltk_2.15.0          tools_2.15.0         
[7] xtable_1.7-0          zlibbioc_1.2.0