Updating to latest Curl

weatherh

The current CentOS environment has a lot of older installs. I was able to update Git to something more recent but when I attempt to install Homebrew I hit an issue with the old Curl available on Opalstack. Before installing Homebrew I tried to install the latest Curl manually:

cd ~/src wget https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.67.0.tar.gz gunzip -c curl-7.67.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - cd curl-7.67.0 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt --mandir=$HOME/usr --with-ssl make make install

The installation seemed fine but curl --version still shows "7.29.0"

sean

weatherh you'll also need to add your opt/bin directory to the search path, eg:

export PATH=$HOME/opt/bin:$PATH

Once you've done that you should get your updated curl when you run curl.

atomiccherry

Novice at the command line here.

I'm attempting to update cURL on an individual app instance. I've followed the above terminal commands but I keep getting an error: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! 🙂

nick

atomiccherry Hey there, I've tested this, and it should work (not much different from the OP):

# Make build dirs if they do not exist
mkdir -p ~/src ~/usr ~/opt

# Build latest 7.X cURL
cd ~/src
wget https://curl.se/download/curl-7.88.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf curl-7.88.1.tar.gz
cd curl-7.88.1
source scl_source enable devtoolset-11 
./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt --mandir=$HOME/usr --with-ssl
make -j3
make install

# Test
~/opt/bin/curl -V

# Add to PATH
export PATH=$HOME/opt/bin:$PATH

atomiccherry

nick Still seeing cURL v7.2.x using php.info() in the app. Although requesting the version at command line after running the above I see v7.88.1. Am I missing a step? (app still not working and developer assures me it's a outdated cURL issue)

nick

atomiccherry Hi there, you’ll need to build a private PHP instance to integrate newer cURL versions into PHP. Instructions here should get you going with that, https://community.opalstack.com/d/927-howto-run-a-custom-php-build-on-opalstack