Comments on: [HowTo] Install Curl in PHP5 and Apache

By: palaniraja

palaniraja — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:55:28 +0000

sudo apt-get install curl php5-curl

does it for me.

By: Michael P.

Michael P. — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:55:40 +0000

thanks dude

By: Gauti

Gauti — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:14:27 +0000

Hi Ivan,

Thanks that sorted the problem out.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:03:00 +0000

Hi Gauti,
looks like your repo is not update.
Try this steps:
1. sudo apt-get autoclean
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl php5-mcrypt
Hope this help.

By: Gauti

Gauti — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:02:05 +0000

I am using Ubuntu OS.
PHP 5.2.6.2

I get 404’s for many of the PHP5 libraries being upgraded and also the curl libraries. The errors are similar to the ones below –

Err http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main linux-libc-dev
Err http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main lib-ssl-dev

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:11:54 +0000

Hi Gauti,
Which step produce 404 error?
What OS are you using? Because that command only run on Ubuntu/Debian.

By: Gauti

Gauti — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:34:31 +0000

I run the command and I get a lot of 404 errors.
System indicates it needs to install extra packages and upgrade some. When it tries it show the 404 errors.
I have minimal experience on *nix and don’t have a clue what to do.

Can you please suggest a way forward?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:44:49 +0000

Terminal mean your shell. If you’re a linux/unix user, you should familiar with the word “terminal”.

By: baibulat

baibulat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:29:06 +0000

maybe to make some illustration or picture of the terminal, or the pathway, how to open this terminal…

By: baibulat

baibulat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:27:52 +0000

‘Open your terminal and type this command’. It is not clear about what terminal mentioned there. If it said as windows explorer window, so it is ok. But the terminal is confusing most.

By: Jon Jennings

Jon Jennings — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:55:21 +0000

Just a quick ‘thank you’ note for this.

I was trying to replace file_get_contents() with curl in some code. Of course it worked on my hosting server but not on my server at home. A quick phpinfo() had shown me the reason why already but your post saved me 15 minutes searching through documentation.

Thank you.