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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install curl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install curl
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install curl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install curl
How To Uninstall curl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the curl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove curl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install curl on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
