On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Ben Thomas wrote: > How do I find where the "system" version of curl is stored (Ubuntu > 12.04 default) and "overwrite" it with the new version (by > reinstalling curl 7.30 so that everything continues to "look in the > same place"? > > Is it possible?
Not completely clear on what you are trying to do but it seems you want to run a specific application that's compiled against the latest and greatest version of libcurl, but it's finding the older system version instead. Replacing the system's version of a library with something else might cause major problems; if an installed deb package is expecting the older version it could break your system. (Not sure about ubuntu but on some distros the package manager itself depends on libcurl, breaking the package manager can be something like locking your keys in the car, i.e. you can't fix the package manager without a working package manager...) If you install your new version of libcurl somewhere else, you can always tell your application to look for it there by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment, e.g. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/new/curl/lib/ - Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
