How to Install libcurl3 software package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

How to Install libcurl3 software package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

libcurl3 software package provides easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (OpenSSL flavour), you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl3 

libcurl3 is installed in your system.

Make ensure the libcurl3 package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libcurl3 *

You will get with libcurl3 package name, version, architecture and description in a table

libcurl3 package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus
Section Libraries
Package libcurl3
Version 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.2 [amd64, i386
Description easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (OpenSSL flavour)
Sub Section Libs


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