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Update curl on Ubuntu 14.04
#! /usr/bin/env bash
# Install any build dependencies needed for curl
sudo apt-get build-dep curl
# Get latest (as of Feb 25, 2016) libcurl
mkdir ~/curl
cd ~/curl
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.50.2.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf curl-7.50.2.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.50.2
# The usual steps for building an app from source
# ./configure
# ./make
# sudo make install
./configure
make
sudo make install
# Resolve any issues of C-level lib
# location caches ("shared library cache")
sudo ldconfig
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kimh commented Oct 25, 2017

Just for the people with the same issue: ./configure didn't add SSL support to curl. To do that, I first had to install libssl-dev and then ./configure automatically detect SSL without passing --with-sshl option.

@Citrullin
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Download curl with wget is like downloading Firefox/Chrome with an Internet Explorer! :D Thx by the way.

@kunasiramesh
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Thank you 👍

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sclass commented Apr 17, 2018

Thank you.
(I have confirmed that the script works perfectly in the Ubuntu 12.04 distribution.)
Due to the this OCSP bug : https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2017022201?affChecked=1
I recommend use the latest version of curl-7.59.0

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iansmith commented Jun 6, 2018

Bravo!

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ag1805x commented Jun 14, 2018

Superbly done. Thanks

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EyalPery commented Jul 19, 2018

Thanks!
Few notes for the script which helped me:

  1. Check the latest version of curl here: http://curl.haxx.se/download/ and change the script accordingly (i.e every 7.50.2 to 7.60.0)
  2. Change ./configure to ./configure --prefix=/usr
  • Use curl --version to verify it got updated

@ZhangVic
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Thank you so much.
But I get different result in two terminals with the same version of curl
A little confused

@chsavvaidis
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Thank you so much, you saved my day

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jlis commented Nov 8, 2018

Great help!

@Carlos-Henreis
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Perfect

@hardword
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Thanks!!!

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Globerada commented Jan 9, 2019

EDITED: Great... Not working. Curl is giving no response.
Also PHP info is showing another version of curl: cURL Information | 7.47.0
I did sudo service apache2 restart

ubuntu@globerada:~$ curl -Vv
curl 7.63.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
Release-Date: 2018-12-12
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IDN IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP UnixSockets
ubuntu@globerada:~$ curl https://www.google.com
ubuntu@globerada:~$

Thank you, it works. I have updated to latest (7.63.0 on 2019-01-09) because I had some problems with Curl 7.49 and Guzzle.

Steps for Ubuntu 16.04

touch update_curl.sh
chmod u+wx update_curl.sh
nano update_curl.sh


#! /usr/bin/env bash
sudo apt-get build-dep curl
mkdir ~/curl
cd ~/curl
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.63.0.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf curl-7.63.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.63.0
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig


./update_curl.sh

@jaymedici
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Thanks dude!

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lvm3632 commented Jun 26, 2020

EDITED: Great... Not working. Curl is giving no response.
Also PHP info is showing another version of curl: cURL Information | 7.47.0
I did sudo service apache2 restart

ubuntu@globerada:~$ curl -Vv
curl 7.63.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
Release-Date: 2018-12-12
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IDN IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP UnixSockets
ubuntu@globerada:~$ curl https://www.google.com
ubuntu@globerada:~$

Thank you, it works. I have updated to latest (7.63.0 on 2019-01-09) because I had some problems with Curl 7.49 and Guzzle.

Steps for Ubuntu 16.04

touch update_curl.sh
chmod u+wx update_curl.sh
nano update_curl.sh

#! /usr/bin/env bash
sudo apt-get build-dep curl
mkdir ~/curl
cd ~/curl
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.63.0.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf curl-7.63.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.63.0
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

./update_curl.sh

Thanks! It works! :)
Also I restarted my service in order to get visible the changes with the command:
systemctl restart apache2

@Rockstar5645
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@derylspielman thanks a bunch

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