In any case, a method has recently been discovered to install cURL and OpenSSL on Android devices, which is super useful for web admins that have a terminal emulator on their phone.

Basically, it protects your credit card from being stolen when you buy things online, to boil it down very simply.

OpenSSL on the other hand is an open-source implementation of SSL/TLS protocols, which is used to secure app communication between servers. You can use it to manage files on an FTP server, expand abbreviated URLs, and display the weather report in funky ASCII graphics. For average users, this may sound completely wonky and unnecessary, but expert Linux admins should already be aware of the myriad of cool, useful things that can be done with cURL. When copying or creating a symbolic link the library installed under /usr/local, it is recommended to set it.CURL is a popular command-line tool for transferring data between servers, which in a nutshell means it’s a very geeky way of downloading webpages and file links from inside a command terminal. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH variables is useful when building or executing other sources.

Terminal // /usr/local/bin # ln -s /usr/local/curl/7_65_3/bin/curl /usr/local/bin/ # ln -s /usr/local/curl/7_65_3/bin/curl-config /usr/local/bin/ // /usr/local/include # ln -s //usr/local/curl/7_65_3/include/curl /usr/local/include/ // /usr/local/lib # ln -s /usr/local/curl/7_65_3/lib/libcurl.a /usr/local/lib/ # ln -s /usr/local/curl/7_65_3/lib/libcurl.la /usr/local/lib/ # ln -s /usr/local/curl/7_65_3/lib/libcurl.so /usr/local/lib/ # ln -s /usr/local/curl/7_65_3/lib/libcurl.so.4 /usr/local/lib/ # ln -s /usr/local/curl/7_65_3/lib/libcurl.so.4.5.0 /usr/local/lib/ // /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig # ln -s /usr/local/curl/7_65_3/lib/pkgconfig/libcurl.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ // /usr/local/share/aclocal # ln -s /usr/local/curl/7_65_3/share/aclocal/libcurl.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal/ Set Environment Variable

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