MiKTeX in Ubuntu 14.04: Could NOT find CURL

Question

I am trying to install MiKTeX in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I am downloading the dependencies one by one, but below is where I got stuck:

CMake Warning at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindQt4.cmake:659 (message):
  /usr/bin/qmake reported QT_INSTALL_LIBS as "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" but
  QtCore could not be found there.  Qt is NOT installed correctly for the
  target build environment.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:347 (find_package)

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message):
  Could NOT find CURL (missing: CURL_LIBRARY CURL_INCLUDE_DIR)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:315 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindCURL.cmake:54 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:354 (find_package)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/user/Downloads/2.9/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/user/Downloads/2.9/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

As for CURL, I do have it. When I put curl -V I get the following:

curl 7.35.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.35.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1f zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.28 librtmp/2.3
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp 
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP

Also, what QT should I install?

Solution

MikTeX is not packaged for Ubuntu, but it is fairly easy to install if you follow the documentation.

Start by removing any packages you may have installed by hand (e.g. CURL). Then install the dependencies from the repositories:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl3-openssl-dev

Configure and compile (inside the MikTeX source folder):

./configure && make

And finally install it:

sudo make install

Comments

[Luís de Sousa]

You are bumping into several problems simultaneously. First of all, the only dependencies required by MikTex are build-essential and libcurl3-openssl-dev. Secondly, you seem to have a non packaged version of CURL; from the repositories I got 7.23.1 for Ubuntu 14.04.

[Luís de Sousa]

Make sure you have the package libzip2 installed from the repositories and try again.