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