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Hi everyone,

I don’t want to be annoying by saying “it’s fixed” and then coming back to say “actually, it’s not,” but I think I’ve finally solved the issue.

The root of the problem was with the curl library. I was getting this error:

curl: /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by curl)
curl 8.5.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/8.10.1 OpenSSL/3.0.13 zlib/1.2.13.zlib-ng
Release-Date: 2023-12-06, security patched: 8.5.0-2ubuntu10.6
Protocols: http https
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS HSTS HTTPS-proxy IPv6 Largefile libz NTLM SSL threadsafe TLS-SRP UnixSockets
WARNING: curl and libcurl versions do not match. Functionality may be affected.

It turned out to be a version conflict between curl and libcurl. I followed a few steps to resolve it (which I can share if needed), and after rebooting my machine, everything still works — which wasn’t the case yesterday.

  • The curl executable: version 8.5.0 (from Ubuntu).
  • The libcurl.so.4 dynamic library: version 8.10.1, installed in /usr/local/lib/.

The Problem

A custom version of libcurl was installed in /usr/local/lib/, likely built from source, and it’s interfering with Ubuntu’s default curl binary, which expects a different version.

This causes:

  • Runtime symbol errors like:

    undefined reference to `curl_global_init@CURL_OPENSSL_4`

  • And warnings such as:

    WARNING: curl and libcurl versions do not match.

Recommended Fix: Remove the conflicting /usr/local/lib version

Step 1: Check if the custom version exists

ls -l /usr/local/lib/libcurl*

If you see output like:

/usr/local/lib/libcurl.so
/usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4
/usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4.8.10

Then the custom installation is indeed present and causing issues.

Step 2: Remove the manual installation

sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so*

This won’t break your system as long as libcurl is properly installed via APT.

Step 3: Regenerate the shared library cache

sudo ldconfig

Step 4: Verify the system version is now used

ldd $(which curl) | grep libcurl

Expected output:

libcurl.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4

Step 5: Reinstall the official version (just in case)

sudo apt install --reinstall libcurl4-openssl-dev

Expected Result

Now when you run:

curl --version

Hope this helps someone else.

Cheers!

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