Update/Install Latest Curl Version on RHEL 8/RHEL 7/CentOS stream 8/9 CentOS 7 – CWP/VestaCP/Cpanel/Plesk
In this tutorial we’ll upgrade/update/install latest curl version on EL OS platform (redhat/centos). You can also rely on the current OS curl version as it is updated regularly basis with security patches only, if you’re still not satisfied and want the latest features and updates just follow this guide to update curl to latest version.
Short Description on curl :
curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, TFTP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, RTSP and RTMP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features. curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, settop boxes, media players and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily.
Let’s get started with the upgrade process :
Update Curl on RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 (currently no update for curl in centos 8):
rpm -Uvh http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel7/x86_64/city-fan.org-release-3-8.rhel7.noarch.rpm yum install -y yum-utils yum-config-manager --disable city-fan.or yum --enablerepo=city-fan.org install libcurl libcurl-devel
Update Curl on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 :
rpm -Uvh http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel8/x86_64/city-fan.org-release-3-8.rhel8.noarch.rpm dnf install -y yum-utils dnf-config-manager --disable city-fan.org dnf --enablerepo=city-fan.org install libcurl libcurl-devel curl
Update Curl on RHEL 9 / CentOS 9 :
rpm -Uvh http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel9/x86_64/city-fan.org-release-3-8.rhel9.noarch.rpm dnf install -y yum-utils dnf-config-manager --disable city-fan.org dnf --enablerepo=city-fan.org install libcurl libcurl-devel curl
Done you’ve successfully updated your curl version on your EL OS.
To check the Version of the Curl via command line type in this command :
curl -V
Example output :
curl 7.84.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.84.0 NSS/3.67 zlib/1.2.7 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2. .2) libssh2/1.10.0 nghttp2/1.33.0 OpenLDAP/2.4.44 Release-Date: 2022-06-27 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp cp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS GSS-API HSTS HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM NTLM_W PSL SPNEGO SSL UnixSockets
How to Update curl to future version :
For stability reason it will not updated via yum update command as the repo is disabled you can run this following command to update curl manually ensure you’ve followed upper mentioned steps:
yum --enablerepo=city-fan.org install curl libcurl libcurl-devel libmetalink libpsl libssh2 libssh2-devel or yum --enablerepo=city-fan.org update curl libcurl libcurl-devel libmetalink libpsl libssh2 libssh2-devel
Isn’t it as simple as pie? let me know about your experiences with the upgrade process via comment.
Worked great for me on CentOS7, however a few things to note:
– I got the libnghttp2 error when I tried to install, installing EPEL then re-running the curl install command fixes this:
# yum search epel-release
# yum info epel-release
# yum install epel-release
– It displayed the new curl version in Plesk however not on my wordpress website, software restarting my server fixed this, theres probably a better way but it only takes about a minute to restart my server
thanks so much for this !!
http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel8/x86_64/city-fan.org-release-2-1.rhel8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel7/x86_64/city-fan.org-release-2-1.rhel7.noarch.rpm
all Repros are not found
updated, thanks for reporting
The repos are not found, any update? Thanks!
hi its now updated
I’ve managed to get curl version 7.74 installed on CentOS 6.10. But unfortunately http2 is not enabled. Do you know if it is possible to enable http2?
“# curl –version
curl 7.74.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.74.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.17.1 libssh2/1.8.2
Release-Date: 2020-12-09
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS GSS-API HTTPS-proxy IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz Metalink NTLM NTLM_WB SPNEGO SSL UnixSockets”
centos 6 doesn’t supports https2 natively, upgrade to centos 8 stream
Hello, I have followed “Update Curl on RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 :” and have updated on centos 7 :
“curl –version
curl 7.78.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.78.0 NSS/3.53.1 zlib/1.2.7 libpsl/0.7.0 (+libicu/50.1.2) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.33.0 OpenLDAP/2.4.44
Release-Date: 2021-07-21”
but i have checked on my website ( 02 webs : 1 web using wordpress and 1 web using whmcs ) still show old version of curl :
cURL version
7.29.0 NSS/3.53.1
how to fix this problem ? Thank you
hi, try to rebuild php
HI:
Curl on CentOS 6.10 worked like a champ. Thank you.
on CentOS 7.8.2003, the install works (does not report any errors), but after the update, the version string still shows NSS/3.44.
Am I missing something?
# curl -V
curl 7.71.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.71.1 NSS/3.44 zlib/1.2.7 libpsl/0.7.0 (+libicu/50.1.2) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.33.0
Release-Date: 2020-07-01
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-API HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz Metalink NTLM NTLM_WB PSL SPNEGO SSL UnixSockets
hi nss version 3.44.0 is installed on centos 7 i.e. why it shows that version
Curl on RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 update worked for me. Thanks for this.
The RHEL8 repo of city-fan does not contain a newer version of curl, that part of the instruction should be removed.
soon there will be 🙂
Hi, Im having problems running this on CentOS 7. It complains of broken deps..
yum –enablerepo=city-fan.org install libcurl libcurl-devel
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* city-fan.org: http://www.city-fan.org
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package libcurl.x86_64 0:7.29.0-54.el7 will be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libcurl = 7.29.0-54.el7 for package: curl-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64
—> Package libcurl.x86_64 0:7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7 will be an update
–> Processing Dependency: c-ares >= 1.12.0 for package: libcurl-7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libssh2 >= 1.8.0 for package: libcurl-7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libcares.so.2()(64bit) for package: libcurl-7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.6()(64bit) for package: libcurl-7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libldap-2.3.so.0()(64bit) for package: libcurl-7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.6()(64bit) for package: libcurl-7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7.x86_64
—> Package libcurl-devel.x86_64 0:7.29.0-54.el7 will be updated
—> Package libcurl-devel.x86_64 0:7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7 will be an update
–> Processing Dependency: libssh2-devel for package: libcurl-devel-7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7.x86_64
–> Running transaction check
—> Package c-ares.x86_64 0:1.12.0-2.0.cf.fc7 will be installed
—> Package compat-openldap.x86_64 1:2.3.43-5.el7 will be installed
—> Package curl.x86_64 0:7.29.0-54.el7 will be updated
—> Package curl.x86_64 0:7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7 will be an update
–> Processing Dependency: libmetalink.so.3()(64bit) for package: curl-7.53.1-2.0.cf.fc7.x86_64
—> Package libssh2.x86_64 0:1.4.3-12.el7_6.3 will be updated
—> Package libssh2.x86_64 0:1.8.0-3.el7 will be an update
—> Package libssh2-devel.x86_64 0:1.8.0-3.el7 will be installed
—> Package openssl098e.x86_64 0:0.9.8e-29.el7.centos.3 will be installed
–> Running transaction check
—> Package libmetalink.x86_64 0:0.1.3-2.fc7 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: libexpat.so.0()(64bit) for package: libmetalink-0.1.3-2.fc7.x86_64
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: libmetalink-0.1.3-2.fc7.x86_64 (city-fan.org)
Requires: libexpat.so.0()(64bit)
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
Even using –skip-broken produces a new set of errors which I cant resolve.
Run this commands :
yum clean allyum install expat expat-develand again follow the curl installation.
Hi, thanks for the help. Im making progress but now curl is complaining about broken libnghttp2 deps
Error: Package: libcurl-7.66.0-1.1.cf.rhel7.x86_64 (city-fan.org)
Requires: libnghttp2.so.14()(64bit)
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
I installed these..
> yum install libnghttp2 libnghttp2-devel –enablerepo=city-fan.org
Verified…
> yum list installed | grep libnghttp2
libnghttp2.i686 1.7.1-1.el7 @city-fan.org
libnghttp2-devel.i686 1.7.1-1.el7 @city-fan.org
But I still get the same error when I run
> yum –enablerepo=city-fan.org install libcurl libcurl-devel
Thanks for any advice!
Sorry I cant figure out how to format my post properly 🙁
Edit: I finally got this working.
Even though libnghttp2 is available on city-fan.org, it seems you cannot use that version.
Instead you have to install it from epel repo.
After that you can go ahead and install curl from city-fan.org with no further problems
Thanks
You need to install 64 bit packages for centos 7
Thanks for the steps with the upgrade process here. I followed your steps but that just upgraded libcurl and not the actual cURL package. Can you pls help if there needs to be update along that side?
curl -V
curl 7.65.3 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.66.0 NSS/3.36 zlib/1.2.7 libpsl/0.7.0 (+libicu/50.1.2) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.31.1
Hi, libcurl is the curl package. I see you have updated curl package successfully. if you wan to update curl devel package then you need to run this command :
yum --enablerepo=city-fan.org install libcurl libcurl-develor
yum --enablerepo=city-fan.org update libcurl libcurl-devel