I need to update cURL on my MediaTemple DV server with CentOS. My server is running cURL version: 7.15.5 and CentOS version: 5.8 (final).
I've seen commands like yum update curl
, but just want to be certain before I start running commands on my server.
I saw this question "
Upgrade cURL to latest on CentOS ", but I see a lot of references to Linux.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best Answer
Running
yum update <package>
is generally speaking safe. Since the most recent Erratum for cURL is RHSA-2013-0983 from 2013 I don't expect thatyum upgrade curl
will actually do anything at all in 2016...Running
yum update <package>
also typically won't change the version of that package either...You probably should also run
yum upate
without any other options regularly to install the few security updates/bug fixes that still get released for RHEL/CentOS 5.EDIT I had missed that you're still on 5.8 which is an CentOS release from 2012 that hasn't been patched since. Read this answer why that is a Bad Idea™.
If your yum configuration is correct a
yum update curl
might require installation of a number of updated dependancies as well, which are long overdue.