How To Install curl on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install curl in Fedora 36. curl is A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install curl on Fedora 36.

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install curl on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install curl.

Install curl on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install curl

Install curl on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove curl

curl Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/curl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/5949059b2e117ff9a3e02fafc292970f99176f
/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/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/902d8e2b3bda17ea291de54282a1d490fa69ab
/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

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install curl on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).