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Discussion on: Using libcurl3 and libcurl4 on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)

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SwiftWinds

After installing libcurl3, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.3 still did not exist

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Jake Casto

It may be a system specific issue, run the find command to locate it.

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Izzy B

Happened to me as well, ubuntu 18.04. I'm looking in the /usr/lib directory and the best I got is libcurl-gnutls.so.3

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Jake Casto

Hmmm that’s strange, try searching globally for libcurl*.so?

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Antti Hukkanen

I believe they have just changed the file name as you can see from the libcurl3 package details:
packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/l...

As confusing as it is, the file is actually named libcurl.so.4.5.0. So, after installing libcurl3, this should work:

$ cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4.5.0 /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3

After that, follow the advice in the original post.