Introduction to CURL
The cURL package contains
curl and its
support library. This is useful for transferring files with URL
syntax. This ability to both download and redirect files can be
incorporated into other programs to support functions like
streaming media.
Package Information
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Download (HTTP):
http://www.execve.net/curl/curl-7.14.0.tar.bz2
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Download (FTP):
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Download MD5 sum: 46ce665e47d37fce1a0bad935cce58a9
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Download size: 1.9 MB
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Estimated disk space required: 23.8 MB
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Estimated build time: 0.34 SBU (additional 0.86 SBU to run
the test suite)
CURL Dependencies
Optional
pkg-config-0.19, OpenSSL-0.9.7g, OpenLDAP-2.2.24, MIT krb5-1.4.1 or Heimdal-0.7, krb4, Libidn, SPNEGO and c-ares
Optional (for Running the
Test Suite)
Stunnel-4.11 (for running
HTTPS and FTPS tests) and Valgrind
(not used if building the shared library)
Installation of CURL
Install cURL by running the
following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make
If you wish to run the testsuite, use the following commands to
fix a bug in the test script and then run the tests:
sed -i -e 's/^require "valgrind.pm"/# &/' tests/runtests.pl &&
make check
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
find docs -name "Makefile*" \
-o -name "*.1" \
-o -name "*.3" | xargs rm &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/curl-7.14.0 &&
cp -v -R docs/* /usr/share/doc/curl-7.14.0