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Asked: 2022-10-01 04:35:38 +0800 CST

Difference between curl and libcurl in Ubuntu

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What is the difference between installing curl (sudo apt install curl) and installing libcurl (sudo apt install libcurl-dev)

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  1. You're asking about curl and libcurl-dev.

    curl is an application, which depends on libcurl4 to run. You can write other apps than curl to use libcurl4.

    libcurl-dev is a virtual package, provided by the following packages:

    Packages providing libcurl-dev

    libcurl4-gnutls-dev

    development files and documentation for libcurl (GnuTLS flavour)

    libcurl4-nss-dev

    development files and documentation for libcurl (NSS flavour)

    libcurl4-openssl-dev

    development files and documentation for libcurl (OpenSSL flavour)

    So this provides tools and documentation if you want to develop an application that uses libcurl4, libcurl3-gnutls or libcurl3-nss. Further information can be found under each package under libcurl-dev.

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