transmission-1.40 at centos 5 libcurl problem

When I tried to update my transmission (1.34) bittorent client to newest version 1.40 at centos 5 I got a configure error:

Requested ‘libcurl >= 7.16.3′ but version of libcurl is 7.15.5

and it is true… libcurl in centos 5 is now 7.15.5 and probably will not be updated in a short time. As a solution, I tried to rebuild a fedora 8 src package.

What I need was: curl-7.16.4-8.fc8.src.rpm and rpmbuild in my centos system. You will probably need nss-devel and nspr-devel so install it before running rpmbuild.  Let’s rock:

rpmbuild –rebuild –define ‘dist .el5′ curl-7.16.4-8.fc8.src.rpm

after some time you should get files:

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 675076 Nov 11 10:19 curl-7.16.4-8.el5.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 206491 Nov 11 10:19 curl-devel-7.16.4-8.el5.i386.rpm

of course, you can download them from my repo (click at them). Now you can easly install both:

# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/curl-*
Preparing…                ########################################### [100%]
1:curl                   ########################################### [ 50%]
2:curl-devel             ########################################### [100%]

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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Linux, Tips

5 Comments to transmission-1.40 at centos 5 libcurl problem

  1. error: Failed dependencies:
    libcurl.so.3 is needed by (installed) gnupg-1.4.5-13.i386
    libcurl.so.3 is needed by (installed) curl-devel-7.15.5-2.el5.i386
    curl = 7.15.5-2.el5 is needed by (installed) curl-devel-7.15.5-2.el5.i38

  2. h on November 26th, 2008
  3. Do you have tramission srpm that builds on el5 without problem?

  4. Marek on December 8th, 2008
  5. I did not use transmission srpm, I installed it from sources

  6. Marcin Rybak on December 9th, 2008
  7. Hello Marti!

    I am trying to find a solution to install transmission 1.42 without breaking CentOS’s dependency system.
    Here what I doing:

    http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6768&p=33043&hilit=centos#p33043

    No solution yet. :(
    Please let me now, if you have some idea.

  8. Vladi on January 4th, 2009
  9. Helo Vladi - I’ve made some tip at transmissionbt forum,
    regards

  10. Marcin Rybak on January 4th, 2009

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