Installed curl but libcurl wont update

ubuntu curl ubuntu-12.04 libcurl
Gaby Solis picture Gaby Solis · Jan 17, 2015 · Viewed 10k times · Source

I am on Ubuntu 12.04. I just updated the default CURL from 7.22 to 7.28 from source code.

wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.28.0.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install

However, libcurl wont update. When I try 

curl --version
curl 7.28.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0

How to update libcurl?

Answer

Daniel Stenberg picture Daniel Stenberg · Jan 18, 2015

A default install like that will put the newly built libcurl in the /usr/local/lib directory. Your run-time linker will look for libcurl in its configured path and it probably finds your old libcurl dir first in /usr/lib.

You may need to edit /etc/ld.so.conf or change the setup otherwise so that the linker won't prefer the old one.

A more brutal way is of course to uninstall the distro version with apt-get remove.

And btw: 7.28.0 is also a very old version.

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