How To Install libcurl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurl
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcurl.
Install libcurl on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libcurl
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libcurl 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 libcurl
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libcurl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libcurl
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurl
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.