How To Install curl on Fedora 34

curl is A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others) A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install curl on Fedora 34.

What is `curl`

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos…), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks. curl 7.76.1 7.fc34 x86_64 297 k curl-7.76.1-7.fc34.src.rpm updates A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others) https MIT curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos…), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

We can use yum or dnf to install curl on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install curl.

Install curl on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install curl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install curl

Install curl on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install curl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install curl

How To Uninstall curl on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the curl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove curl

curl Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/curl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/c929d59e413f38ff7da563ba29c1963d352745
/usr/share/doc/curl
/usr/share/doc/curl/BUGS.md
/usr/share/doc/curl/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/curl/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/curl/FEATURES.md
/usr/share/doc/curl/README
/usr/share/doc/curl/TODO
/usr/share/doc/curl/TheArtOfHttpScripting.md
/usr/share/man/man1/curl.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_curl
/usr/bin/curl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/870302c41ad6aa443e739c756b5dfd1da5cb3a
/usr/share/doc/curl
/usr/share/doc/curl/BUGS.md
/usr/share/doc/curl/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/curl/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/curl/FEATURES.md
/usr/share/doc/curl/README
/usr/share/doc/curl/TODO
/usr/share/doc/curl/TheArtOfHttpScripting.md
/usr/share/man/man1/curl.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_curl

References

[curl website](https://curl.se/ https://curl.se/)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install curl on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.