How to install CURL on Alpine Linux – Guide
Curl is a command line URL retrieval utility and library (download/upload). It is free software for Alpine Linux.
Installing curl in Alpine
- Open the terminal application. For the remote server, use the ssh command for login purposes. For example: ssh user @ alpine-ec2-server 2.Update the apk database indexes of all configured packages. Run: apk update
- Apply all pending security updates to Alpine Linux, type: apk update
- Look for curl packages in Alpine: apk search curl
- Let us see known information about the listed packages called curl: apk -a info cur apk -v info curl
- Finally, install the curl package on Alpine Linux: apk add curl
Discovering the version of curl
We should check the installation of curl and others featured. So, type the following command to see the installed version: curl – version curl 7.74.0 (x86_64-alpine-linux-musl) libcurl / 7.74.0 OpenSSL / 1.1.1j zlib / 1.2.11 brotli / 1.0.9 nghttp2 / 1.42.0 Release date: 12-09-2020 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IPv6 Largefile libz NTLM NTLM_WB SSL TLS-SRP UnixSockets The above command has successfully verified that curl has been installed on my Alpine Linux laptop.
Installing curl documentation and man pages
Use apk command:
apk add curl-doc (1/1) Installing curl-doc (7.74.0-r1) Running mandoc-apropos-1.14.5-r5.trigger OK: 1109 MiB in 249 packages
Now use the man command:
man curl
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