How to Install and Uninstall curl.x86_64 Package on Rocky Linux 8

Last updated: November 14,2024

1. Install "curl.x86_64" package

This tutorial shows how to install curl.x86_64 on Rocky Linux 8


    
        
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                sudo dnf update
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
                curl.x86_64
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "curl.x86_64" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall curl.x86_64 on Rocky Linux 8:


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
                curl.x86_64
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the curl.x86_64 package on Rocky Linux 8

Last metadata expiration check: 2:31:32 ago on Mon Sep 12 10:27:18 2022.
Installed Packages
Name : curl
Version : 7.61.1
Release : 22.el8_6.4
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 684 k
Source : curl-7.61.1-22.el8_6.4.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : baseos
Summary : A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)
URL : https://curl.haxx.se/
License : MIT
Description : curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting
: FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP,
: SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP
: uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password
: authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer
: resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.