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The version of curl and libcurl here provides libcurl.so.4, whereas
many ancient distributions included a version of curl that provides
libcurl.so.3 or libcurl.so.2.
This means that installing the curl and libcurl packages from this repository can break a
lot of dependencies for applications linked against the older libcurl. This
problem can be avoided by also installing the
libcurl7155 (for libcurl.so.3) and/or
libcurl7112 (for libcurl.so.2) packages,
for backwards compatibility, e.g.:
rpm -Uvh libcurl7155-7.15.5-17.cf.fc19.x86_64.rpm curl-8.2.1-2.1.cf.fc19.x86_64.rpm libcurl-8.2.1-2.1.cf.fc19.x86_64.rpm
libcurl is now linked against various libraries such as c-ares, libidn and libssh2.
If your distribution does not supply these libraries, you can get RPMs from the
libraries directory.
Additionally, builds for recent Fedora releases and RHEL are linked against libnghttp2.
This library is included in Fedora and can be obtained from the
EPEL Repository for RHEL.
Note: I do not intend to create packages for curl versions later than version 8.2.1
for RHEL-7 and Fedora versions prior to Fedora 27 because those OS releases originally shipped with
curl built with NSS as the SSL/TLS back-end, which is no longer supported by curl
since version 8.3.0. Whilst it's still possible to build curl using OpenSSL for those
OS releases, I consider the risk of breaking things too great for it to be worth doing.
Also bear in mind that RHEL-7 will reach end of maintenance support from Red Hat in June 2024
(and I will drop all RHEL-7 support myself soon afterwards).
If you have any queries or problems with these RPMs, please contact the packager, Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> directly.