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cURL-7.10.7

Introduction to cURL

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-7.10.7.tar.gz > curl-7.10.7.tar.gz would download this program's TAR ball to the current directory. This ability to both download and redirect files can be incorporated into other programs to support functions like streaming media.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.10.7.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/utilities/curl/curl-7.10.7.tar.bz2
Download size: 964 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 24.3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.43 SBU

cURL dependencies

Optional

OpenSSL-0.9.7c and OpenLDAP-2.1.22

Installation of cURL

Install cURL by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

The cURL package contains curl, curl-config and the libcurl libraries.

Description

curl

curl is a client that can get documents from or send documents to any of the following protocols: HTTP, HTTPS (needs OpenSSL-0.9.7c), FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET, LDAP (needs OpenLDAP-2.1.22) or FILE.

curl-config

curl-config prints information about the last compile, like libraries linked to and prefix setting.

curl library

libcurl provides the functionality of curl to other programs.