I typed in:
sudo apt-get install curl
and it gave me this: (is it installed?)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libcurl3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
curl libcurl3
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 369 kB of archives.
After this operation, 987 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:1
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main libcurl3 i386 7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2 [236 kB]
Get:2
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main curl i386 7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2 [134 kB]
Fetched 369 kB in 1s (277 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libcurl3.
(Reading database ... 151563 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libcurl3 (from .../libcurl3_7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package curl.
Unpacking curl (from .../curl_7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libcurl3 (7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2) ...
Setting up curl (7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place