Curl not found (Glype)

Question

I'm trying to install proxy software called Glype on my server. It continues to tell me that "Glype requires cURL/libcurl". I have the latest version of curl installed. Why might this be happening? Glype runs with PHP, and the curl binary is in /usr/bin and is rwxrwxrwx.

Answer 1

From your query and the tests you have done, it seems you have cURL installed in the first place and it looks pretty much like php is not able to find the curl path even though it is installed properly. troubleshoot it further by putting a phpinfo page in the doc root and see if php is taking the curl that is installed. if it does then you may need to check if curl is working as it should be. do a sample script that runs curl function and see if it gives any errors. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

I downloaded glype and found it's a PHP program, so what you need is not libcurl or CURL binary, but php_curl module,

apt-get install php5-curl should work for you.

If you're running php with apache, simply restart apache will finish the installation:

service apache2 restart

Answer 3

Please provide more info, such:

• What distro are you using? (or *nix flavor)
• Version of Glype

My recomendation is that you should install libcurl

E.g. in a Debian machine:

$ dpkg -l | grep curl
ii  curl                                 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze2                  Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server
ii  libcurl3                             7.21.0-2.1+squeeze2                  Multi-protocol file transfer library (OpenSSL)

Check if you have the library already installed with the command of dpkg stated above or since you are you're using Linux Mint, you should be able to install libcurl by issuing:

apt-get install libcurl3

Or you can use any other package available.