title: How do I get CLI curl to run on debian lenny
body: <p>I have a machine running debian lenny.<br>
  I need to be able to use curl from the command line but it is just not available.<br>
  When trying to use it I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl: command not found
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What exactly do I need to install to have this command available ?</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE:</p>
  
  <p>I tried to run <code>apt-get install curl</code>
  and got the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>xxxxx:~# apt-get install curl
  
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    lockfile-progs liblockfile1
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    ca-certificates libcurl3 libldap-2.4-2 libssh2-1 openssl
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    ca-certificates curl libcurl3 libldap-2.4-2 libssh2-1 openssl
  0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 1877kB of archives.
  After this operation, 4583kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1+lenny1
    404 Not Found [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]
  Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main libcurl3 7.18.2-8lenny4
    404 Not Found [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]
  Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main curl 7.18.2-8lenny4
    404 Not Found [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]
  Err http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny/main openssl 0.9.8g-15+lenny6
    404 Not Found
  Get:1 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny/main ca-certificates 20080809 [151kB]
  Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main openssl 0.9.8g-15+lenny6
    404 Not Found [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]
  Get:2 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny/main libssh2-1 0.18-1 [64.3kB]
  Fetched 215kB in 0s (391kB/s)
  Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openldap/libldap-2.4-2_2.4.11-1+lenny1_i386.deb  404 Not Found [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]
  Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl/openssl_0.9.8g-15+lenny6_i386.deb  404 Not Found [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]
  Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3_7.18.2-8lenny4_i386.deb  404 Not Found [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]
  Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/curl_7.18.2-8lenny4_i386.deb  404 Not Found [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]
  E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
  xxxxx:~#
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so I tried </p>
  
  <pre><code>xxxxx:~# apt-get update
  Get:1 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny Release.gpg [1034B]
  Get:2 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny Release [85.6kB]
  Get:3 http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release.gpg [836B]
  Get:4 http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release [86.9kB]
  Ign http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny Release
  Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [836B]
  Ign http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
  Ign http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
  Ign http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release
  Get:6 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny/main Packages [6873kB]
  Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org unstable Release [188kB]
  Ign http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
  Ign http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
  Get:8 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages [236kB]
  Get:9 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages [622B]
  Ign http://ftp.debian.org unstable Release
  Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages/DiffIndex [2023B]
  Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources/DiffIndex [2023B]
  Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages [150kB]
  Get:13 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny/contrib Packages [94.3kB]
  Get:14 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources [121kB]
  Fetched 7842kB in 3s (2421kB/s)
  Reading package lists... Done
  W: GPG error: http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu lenny Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA
  W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA
  W: GPG error: http://ftp.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA
  W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then </p>
  
  <pre><code>xxxxx:~# apt-get install curl
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:
  
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    curl: Depends: libcurl3 (&gt;= 7.16.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
  E: Broken packages
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>followed by:</p>
  
  <pre><code>xxxxx:~# apt-get remove curl
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Package curl is not installed, so not removed
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    lockfile-progs liblockfile1
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <pre><code>xxxxx:~# apt-get install curl
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:
  
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    curl: Depends: libcurl3 (&gt;= 7.16.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
  E: Broken packages
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I must be missing something important here...</p>
  
  <p>YET ANOTHER UPDATE:</p>
  
  <p>here is what it says when running apt-get install libcurl3</p>
  
  <pre><code>xxxxx:~# apt-get install libcurl3
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:
  
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libcurl3: Depends: libgssapi-krb5-2 (&gt;= 1.7+dfsg) but it is not installable
              Depends: libidn11 (&gt;= 1.13) but 1.8+20080606-1 is to be installed
              Depends: libssh2-1 (&gt;= 1.2) but it is not going to be installed
  E: Broken packages
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>sources.list files has the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code># the main Debian packages.
  deb http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/debian/debian/ lenny main contrib
  # Uncomment the deb-src line if you want 'apt-get source'
  # to work with most packages.
  # deb-src http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/debian/debian/ lenny main contrib
  # uncommenting the following line will enable security updates
  deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
  
  # for sun-java5 packages in unstable
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable non-free
  deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable non-free
  </code></pre>