[bf8ac01] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[ff769b8c] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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[a2d8572] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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[8e2075c] | 6 |
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[a2d8572] | 7 | <!ENTITY curl-download-http "http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-&curl-version;.tar.bz2">
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[8e2075c] | 8 | <!ENTITY curl-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/network/curl/curl-&curl-version;.tar.bz2">
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[13c0960c] | 9 | <!ENTITY curl-md5sum "d673f68dbab2553acdbfb5435bd1cd48">
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[959464b9] | 10 | <!ENTITY curl-size "1.8 MB">
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[9e563d2a] | 11 | <!ENTITY curl-buildsize "25.2 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY curl-time "0.40 SBU (additional 0.58 SBU to run the test suite)">
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[a2d8572] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[377584f] | 15 | <sect1 id="curl" xreflabel="cURL-&curl-version;">
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[bf8ac01] | 16 | <?dbhtml filename="curl.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>CURL-&curl-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="curl">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-CURL">CURL</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to CURL</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>The <application>cURL</application> package contains
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| 33 | <command>curl</command> and its support library. This is useful for
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| 34 | transferring files with URL syntax. This ability to both
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| 35 | download and redirect files can be incorporated into other programs to support
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| 36 | functions like streaming media.</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 39 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 40 | <listitem>
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| 41 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&curl-download-http;"/></para>
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| 42 | </listitem>
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&curl-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &curl-md5sum;</para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Download size: &curl-size;</para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &curl-buildsize;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Estimated build time: &curl-time;</para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | </itemizedlist>
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| 59 |
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[ef8b91c2] | 60 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">CURL Dependencies</bridgehead>
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[bf8ac01] | 61 |
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| 62 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 63 | <para><xref linkend="pkgconfig"/>,
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| 64 | <xref linkend="openssl"/>,
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| 65 | <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
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| 66 | <xref linkend="mitkrb"/> or <xref linkend="heimdal"/>,
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| 67 | <ulink url="http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/">krb4</ulink>,
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| 68 | <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/">Libidn</ulink>,
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| 69 | <ulink url="http://www.vintela.com/resources/topics/spnego/">SPNEGO</ulink> and
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| 70 | <ulink url="http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/">c-ares</ulink></para>
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| 71 |
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[0f0ee329] | 72 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (for Running the Test Suite)</bridgehead>
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[bf8ac01] | 73 | <para><xref linkend="stunnel"/> (for running HTTPS and FTPS tests) and
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| 74 | <ulink url="http://valgrind.kde.org/">Valgrind</ulink> (not used if building
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| 75 | the shared library)</para>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | </sect2>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 80 | <title>Installation of CURL</title>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <para>Install <application>cURL</application> by running the following
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| 83 | commands:</para>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &&
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| 86 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <para>If you wish to run the testsuite, use the following commands to fix a
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| 89 | bug in the test script and then run the tests:</para>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <screen><userinput>sed -i -e 's/^require "valgrind.pm"/# &/' tests/runtests.pl &&
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| 92 | make check</userinput></screen>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <screen role='root'><userinput>make install &&
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[951fac10] | 97 | find docs -name "Makefile*" \
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[bf8ac01] | 98 | -o -name "*.1" \
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| 99 | -o -name "*.3" | xargs rm &&
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[951fac10] | 100 | install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version; &&
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[bf8ac01] | 101 | cp -v -R docs/* /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | </sect2>
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| 104 |
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| 105 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 106 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | <para><option>--with-gssapi</option>:
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| 109 | This parameter adds <application>Kerberos 5</application> support to
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| 110 | <filename class="libraryfile">libcurl</filename>.</para>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | </sect2>
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| 113 |
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| 114 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 115 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <segmentedlist>
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| 118 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 119 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 120 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 121 |
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| 122 | <seglistitem>
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| 123 | <seg>curl and curl-config</seg>
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| 124 | <seg>libcurl.[so,a]</seg>
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| 125 | <seg>/usr/include/curl, /usr/share/curl
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| 126 | and /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version;</seg>
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| 127 | </seglistitem>
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| 128 | </segmentedlist>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <variablelist>
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| 131 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 132 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 133 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 134 |
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| 135 | <varlistentry id="curl-prog">
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| 136 | <term><command>curl</command></term>
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| 137 | <listitem>
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| 138 | <para>is a client that can get documents from or send documents to
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| 139 | any of the following protocols: HTTP, HTTPS (needs <xref
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| 140 | linkend="openssl"/>), FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET, LDAP (needs
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| 141 | <xref linkend="openldap"/> at run time) or FILE.</para>
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| 142 | <indexterm zone="curl curl-prog">
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| 143 | <primary sortas="b-curl">curl</primary>
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| 144 | </indexterm>
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| 145 | </listitem>
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| 146 | </varlistentry>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <varlistentry id="curl-config">
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| 149 | <term><command>curl-config</command></term>
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| 150 | <listitem>
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| 151 | <para>prints information about the last compile, like libraries
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| 152 | linked to and prefix setting.</para>
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| 153 | <indexterm zone="curl curl-config">
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| 154 | <primary sortas="b-curl-config">curl-config</primary>
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| 155 | </indexterm>
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| 156 | </listitem>
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| 157 | </varlistentry>
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| 158 |
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| 159 | <varlistentry id="libcurl">
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| 160 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libcurl.[so,a]</filename></term>
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| 161 | <listitem>
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| 162 | <para>provides the API functions required by
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| 163 | <command>curl</command> and other programs.</para>
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| 164 | <indexterm zone="curl libcurl">
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| 165 | <primary sortas="c-libcurl">libcurl.[so,a]</primary>
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| 166 | </indexterm>
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| 167 | </listitem>
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| 168 | </varlistentry>
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| 169 |
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| 170 | </variablelist>
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| 171 |
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| 172 | </sect2>
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| 173 |
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[f45b1953] | 174 | </sect1>
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| 175 |
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