Download location (HTTP): http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.10.4.tar.bz2 Download location (FTP): ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/utilities/curl/curl-7.10.4.tar.bz2 Version used: 7.10.4 Package size: 860 KB Estimated Disk space required: 7.2 MB Estimated build time: 0.65 SBU |
The curl package contains curl and its support library. This is useful for transferring files with URL syntax. For example, curl http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.10.4.tar.gz > curl-7.10.4.tar.gz would download this program's tarball to the current directory. This ability to both download and redirect files can be incorporated into other programs to support functions like streaming media.
curl will utilize: openssl-0.9.7a and openldap-2.1.17 |
Install curl by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install |
The curl package contains curl, curl-config and the libcurl libraries.
curl is a client that can get documents from or send documents to any of the following protocols: HTTP, HTTPS (needs openssl), FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET, LDAP (needs openldap) or FILE.
curl-config prints information about the last compile, like libraries linked to and prefix setting.
libcurl provides the functionality of curl to other programs.