RCurl on Ubuntu 12.04+

Have you tried running R and need the RCurl package. Running this

install.packages("RCurl")

 throws this error on my terminal

 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’ 

And this is how i fixed it below. 

At the Ubuntu prompt, i run this:

thedatafugee:~$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

and then proceeded to successfully install the RCurl on the R terminal and dazzit!! Fixed!!

and this point i get all the successful installation jargon!! 

"** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Creating a generic function for ‘close’ from package ‘base’ in package ‘RCurl’
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (RCurl)

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/RtmpjhxEZZ/downloaded_packages’

"