curl-http3-deb

Wanted an easy way to install curl with http3 / quic support for Ubuntu 22.04, so made this repo.

Turned the instructions here: https://curl.se/docs/http3.html into a .deb installer that can be installed on Ubuntu 22.04.

The instructions were added into a Dockerfile and install of running make install, we use checkinstall to generate deb packages.

This is similar to https://github.com/yurymuski/curl-http3, but uses ngtcp2 and nghttp3 instead of quiche.

Running via dockerhub

docker run compscidr/curl-http3-quic --version

Installation Instructions

If you actually want to install the packages onto your system, a add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/compscidr.list:

deb [trusted=yes] https://apt.fury.io/compscidr/ /

Then run:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install \
    openssl=3.0.0+quic-jammy-1 \
    nghttp3=0.7.0-4-g8597ab3-jammy-1 \
    ngtcp2=0.9.0-14-gccb745e5-jammy-1 \
    curl=7-85-0-177-g0a652280c-jammy-1

Note, the order is important because I don't seem to have the dependencies set with the versions correctly yet, but if you install each in order it will work.

Note, if you already have curl installed, you may need to remove it first. You may also get ssl warnings about downgrade. If you want you can try adding --allow-downgrades to the apt-install but this could break things.

I currently use this for a docker container, so its not going to break an entire system, but seems to be working fine with a ubuntu22.04 container.

TODO

• rename the package,so it doesn't conflict with the official curl package
• rename the curl binary so it doesn't conflict with the official curl package
• pin git repo's for the build to particular tagged releases