love my computer: July 2003 Archives

but, if you choose to do so, dotlizard dotcom doesn't want you getting caught. there's a new skin (it's in the sidebar too), an idea i stole from probably either her or maybe her, i can't remember exactly. i left the sidebar in, which makes it less word-documenty-looking, but all in all it's far less obvious than any of the current skins, and still retains all the same goodies.

according to the cURL site, "Install clearly describes how to go ahead when you want to compile and install curl on your system. "

i have included the text of the aforementioned clear description, in the more text, due to its startling ... clarity.

i found more ... clarity out there than you can shake a stick at. and then i found this place and these instructions:

cd /usr/local/src
tar -zxvf curl-x.x.tar.gz
cd /curl-x.x
./configure --with-ssl
make
make install

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now this doesn't cover the part where apache continued to give me an error message about my version being too old, or how i ran through several reconfigures including the big scary one that says USE AT OWN RISK but KISS YOUR SERVER GOODBYE FIRST, which wasn't so bad afterall. and i finally got cURL installed.

now the only problem is the script that needs it? doesn't work.

small detail.