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Update curl on Ubuntu 14.04
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update_curl.sh
#! /usr/bin/env bash
# Install any build dependencies needed for curl
sudo apt-get build-dep curl
# Get latest (as of Feb 25, 2016) libcurl
mkdir ~/curl
cd ~/curl
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.50.2.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf curl-7.50.2.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.50.2
# The usual steps for building an app from source
# ./configure
# ./make
# sudo make install
./configure
make
sudo make install
# Resolve any issues of C-level lib
# location caches ("shared library cache")
sudo ldconfig
@kivison

kivison commented Nov 2, 2016

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This was one of those "I dont really know what I am doing" moments but trusted that you did.
Trust Confirmed! Thank you, worked a treat :)
Regards
Keet

@fideloper

fideloper commented Nov 2, 2016

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I don't know what I'm doing either! 🎉 👍

@derylspielman

derylspielman commented Nov 13, 2016 •
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I tried upating to curl 7.51.0 but when I run curl --version I still see the old version 7.35.0.

curl: /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by curl)
curl 7.35.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.51.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1f zlib/1.2.8 librtmp/2.3
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp 
Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP

Running which curl shows /usr/bin/curl but the script seems to install 7.51.0 in /usr/local/bin/curl. To specify /usr/bin/curl as the path it's installed to change the ./configure to ./configure --prefix=/usr

@bsingarayan

bsingarayan commented Nov 26, 2016

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good one, thanks!

@agarzon

agarzon commented Dec 29, 2016

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@derylspielman is right.

./configure --prefix=/usr should be used in order to replace the default curl binay located in /usr/bin/curl, tested on Ubuntu 14.04 with curl 7.52.1

@parismita

parismita commented Jan 7, 2017

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thanks a lot <3

@Yazany6b

Yazany6b commented Jan 9, 2017

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Thanks a lot the curl was correctly but i want also to update the openssl version to 1.0.2e can i do that. i have tried many ways but no success.

@CraigChilds94

CraigChilds94 commented Jan 11, 2017

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I like!

@Uditmittal

Uditmittal commented Mar 7, 2017

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Thanks a lot <3 .

@vishalrekala

vishalrekala commented Apr 19, 2017

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Perfect!!!!
Worked like a charm

@mpachin

mpachin commented May 18, 2017

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Saved my day! Thank you!

@mangowalrus

mangowalrus commented Jun 7, 2017 •
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Where do I run this and how.?
I have a bitnami Magento stack on AWS and don't know how to do this.
Obviously I can upload to my site, but where do I put it and how do I run it?
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS - trusty - PHP 5.4.32 - curl 7.27

@mangowalrus

mangowalrus commented Jun 12, 2017 •
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How do you do this on a .deb installation please?
Making slight brain progress here.
Time is running away ... or it's the chemo ...

@ywfluctier

ywfluctier commented Sep 26, 2017

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Great! Thanks to sharer as well as @derylspielman

@kimh

kimh commented Oct 25, 2017

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Just for the people with the same issue: ./configure didn't add SSL support to curl. To do that, I first had to install libssl-dev and then ./configure automatically detect SSL without passing --with-sshl option.

@Citrullin

Citrullin commented Dec 8, 2017

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Download curl with wget is like downloading Firefox/Chrome with an Internet Explorer! :D Thx by the way.

@kunasiramesh

kunasiramesh commented Mar 9, 2018

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Thank you 👍

@sclass

sclass commented Apr 17, 2018

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Thank you.
(I have confirmed that the script works perfectly in the Ubuntu 12.04 distribution.)
Due to the this OCSP bug : https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2017022201?affChecked=1
I recommend use the latest version of curl-7.59.0

@iansmith

iansmith commented Jun 6, 2018

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Bravo!

@ag1805x

ag1805x commented Jun 14, 2018

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Superbly done. Thanks

@EyalPery

EyalPery commented Jul 19, 2018 •
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Thanks!
Few notes for the script which helped me:

  1. Check the latest version of curl here: http://curl.haxx.se/download/ and change the script accordingly (i.e every 7.50.2 to 7.60.0)
  2. Change ./configure to ./configure --prefix=/usr
  • Use curl --version to verify it got updated

@ZhangVic

ZhangVic commented Jul 27, 2018

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Thank you so much.
But I get different result in two terminals with the same version of curl
A little confused

@chsavvaidis

chsavvaidis commented Oct 31, 2018

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Thank you so much, you saved my day

@jlis

jlis commented Nov 8, 2018

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Great help!

@Carlos-Henreis

Carlos-Henreis commented Dec 4, 2018

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Perfect

@hardword

hardword commented Dec 22, 2018

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Thanks!!!

@Globerada

Globerada commented Jan 9, 2019 •
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EDITED: Great... Not working. Curl is giving no response.
Also PHP info is showing another version of curl: cURL Information | 7.47.0
I did sudo service apache2 restart

ubuntu@globerada:~$ curl -Vv
curl 7.63.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
Release-Date: 2018-12-12
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IDN IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP UnixSockets
ubuntu@globerada:~$ curl https://www.google.com
ubuntu@globerada:~$

Thank you, it works. I have updated to latest (7.63.0 on 2019-01-09) because I had some problems with Curl 7.49 and Guzzle.

Steps for Ubuntu 16.04

touch update_curl.sh
chmod u+wx update_curl.sh
nano update_curl.sh

#! /usr/bin/env bash
sudo apt-get build-dep curl
mkdir ~/curl
cd ~/curl
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.63.0.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf curl-7.63.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.63.0
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

./update_curl.sh

@jaymedici

jaymedici commented Nov 14, 2019

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Thanks dude!

@Rockstar5645

Rockstar5645 commented Sep 30, 2021

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@derylspielman thanks a bunch

@riskydigital

riskydigital commented Nov 3, 2025

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Fantastics! It's Works!

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