Update or install CURL on CentOS / RHEL

In this tutorial we’ll upgrade/update/install latest curl version on EL OS platform (redhat/centos). You can also rely on the current OS curl version as it is updated regularly basis with security patches only, if you’re still not satisfied and want the latest features and updates just follow this guide to update curl to latest version.

Short Description on curl :

curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, TFTP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, RTSP and RTMP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features. curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, settop boxes, media players and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily.

Let’s get started with the upgrade process :

Update Curl on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 :

rpm -Uvh http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel8/x86_64/city-fan.org-release-2-1.rhel8.noarch.rpm
dnf --enablerepo=city-fan.org install libcurl libcurl-devel

**not yet updated for centos 8

Update Curl on RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 :

rpm -Uvh http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel7/x86_64/city-fan.org-release-2-1.rhel7.noarch.rpm
yum --enablerepo=city-fan.org install libcurl libcurl-devel

Update Curl on RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 :

# x86_64
rpm -Uvh http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel6/x86_64/city-fan.org-release-2-1.rhel6.noarch.rpm
yum --enablerepo=city-fan.org install libcurl libcurl-devel

# i386
rpm -Uvh http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel6/i386/city-fan.org-release-2-1.rhel6.noarch.rpm
yum --enablerepo=city-fan.org install libcurl libcurl-devel

Done you’ve successfully updated your curl version on your EL OS.

o check the Version of the Curl via command line type in this command :

curl -V

Example output :

# curl -V
curl 7.70.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.70.0 NSS/3.44 zlib/1.2.7 libpsl/0.7.0 (+libicu/50.1.2) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.31.1
Release-Date: 2020-04-29
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-API HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz Metalink NTLM NTLM_WB PSL SPNEGO SSL UnixSockets

How to Update curl to future version :

For stability reason it will not updated via yum update command as the repo is disabled you can run this following command to update curl manually ensure you’ve followed upper mentioned steps:

yum --enablerepo=city-fan.org install curl libcurl libcurl-devel libmetalink libpsl libssh2 libssh2-devel
or
yum --enablerepo=city-fan.org update curl libcurl libcurl-devel libmetalink libpsl libssh2 libssh2-devel

Done! you did this. let me know about your experiences with the upgrade process via comment.

Sepehr Vaez Afshar

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