How To Install libcurl on Fedora 36

Introduction

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

What is libcurl

libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos4), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more.

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

Install libcurl 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 libcurl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcurl

Install libcurl 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 libcurl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcurl

How To Uninstall libcurl on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove libcurl

libcurl Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/235b3d9cfbac4e5c68f319bf1d414eb7cc7eb8
/usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4
/usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4.7.0
/usr/share/licenses/libcurl
/usr/share/licenses/libcurl/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/591abeb6525441e1602dc008f9d999e1e0b055
/usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4
/usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4.7.0
/usr/share/licenses/libcurl
/usr/share/licenses/libcurl/COPYING

References

• libcurl website

Summary

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