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Chris Henry
Asked: 2011-10-14 15:38:48 +0800 CST

Upgrade cURL to latest on CentOS

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I need to upgrade cURL to the latest version on Centos

2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.centos.plusxen #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 20:32:20 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I'm unable to find any suitable packages to do so via yum or rpm. Is there a standard way to do this upgrade without installing from source?

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4 Answers

  1. This is an old question, but it is still one the first results in google search, so I'd like post the solution that solved my problem.

    1. Create a new file /etc/yum.repos.d/city-fan.repo

    2. Paste the following contents:

      [CityFan]
name=City Fan Repo
baseurl=http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

    3. Type this into the terminal:

      yum clean all
yum install curl

    4. And it's done!

    Observe that for other RHEL/CentOS versions, all you have to do is specify the appropriate CityFan URL.

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  2. Why do you need to upgrade curl? Is there a specific feature you're missing?

    You can get it straight from the developer:

    http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

    Scroll down to the Redhat (thanks twirrim) listings, find a suitable RPM (RHEL5 based) and install.

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  3. Could not get taksan's answer to work for my setup here is what I used

    yum install epel-release -y
rpm -Uvh http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel6/x86_64/city-fan.org-release-1-13.rhel6.noarch.rpm
yum update curl

    more related answers can be found here Upgrading curl on centos 6: libcurl-7.50 requires libnghttp2

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  4. Latest stable curl verison is 7.22.0, but so far 7.19.7-16 is the CentOS latest. So you either have to find a repository that offers the latest build now or wait for the CentOS base repo to update the build.

    yum update curl

    I found a repo for you: 

    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/x86_64/os/Packages/?P=*curl*

    You could wget the libcurl and curls files from the link above and then rpm –Uvh packagename, install the libcurl and then the curls pack.

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