Could not open library 'libcurl': libcurl: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

I am trying to execute rake db:create command. I get following error

Could not open library 'libcurl': libcurl: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

Could not open library 'libcurl': libcurl: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Could not open library 'libcurl.so': libcurl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can anyone help me with this issue?

Answer 1

• Try to install curl.

• If it doesn't work, try the command ldconfig (actualising libs)

• If it doesn't work :

  1. go to /usr/lib
  2. run find . | grep curl, locate the .so file (eg like curl_path.so or latest libcurl.so.xx)
  3. run ln -s {curl_path.so} /usr/lib/libcurl.so
  4. run ldconfig

Answer 2

Actually - what fixed the problem was installing typhoeus:

gem install typhoeus

Or whatever package is actually needed for libcurl.