How To Install curl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install curl
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install curl.
Install curl on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install curl
using yum
by running the following command:
Install curl on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install curl
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall curl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the curl
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install curl
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.