[clamav-users] configure: error: Your libcurl is misconfigured. libcurl (e.g. libcurl-devel) is required in order to build freshclam and clamsubmit

[Simon Wilson]

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     Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:32:37 +0100 (BST)
     From: "G.W. Haywood via clamav-users" <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
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  Subject: Re: [clamav-users] configure: error: Your libcurl is  
misconfigured. libcurl (e.g. libcurl-devel) is required in order to  
build freshclam and clamsubmit
       To: Kin Sou via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
       Cc: "G.W. Haywood" <clamav at jubileegroup.co.uk>


> Hi there,
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Kin Sou via clamav-users wrote:
>
>> I am installing clamav 0.102.3 on CentOS8.4 ...
>
> Please can you confirm that you're trying to install version 0.102.3?
>
> If so, I suggest that you don't do that.  Better to install the latest
> version (which is 0.103.3) and, in view of very recent events (see the
> mailing list for the last day or so), perhaps even wait for 0.103.4 to
> be released which I guess will be soon.
>
>> checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config
>> ./configure: line 30064: auto=yes: command not found
>> checking for curl_easy_init in -lcurl... no
>> configure: error: Your libcurl is misconfigured. libcurl (e.g.
>> libcurl-devel) is required in order to build freshclam and clamsubmit.
>>
>> How to solve this hurdle?
>
> The line number 30064 doesn't seem to match with the version of the script
> which I have in the original tarball.  Is this a RedHat source package?
> It seems to be saying that you don't have /usr/bin/curl-config which might
> mean that you haven't installed it, or that you've installed it somewhere
> strange, or this might be a red herring.  Anyway I'd suggest starting with
> a clean sheet and at least downloading the latest official source tarball
> from the ClamAV site before you try again.


----- End message from "G.W. Haywood via clamav-users"  
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It would be FAR easier to install Clamav 103.3 from EPEL repository  
for CentOS / RH than build from source, especially when releases get  
published through EPEL very quickly.

Simon

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