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I'm facing this issue in my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (fossa-charmander-14 X60). I've bought new DELL Latitude 5420. When I type the command "curl" this error shows up.

curl: symbol lookup error: curl: undefined symbol: curl_url_cleanup
parveen@eagle:~$ sudo apt install curl
[sudo] password for parveen: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
curl is already the newest version (7.68.0-1ubuntu2.7).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
It says I already have curl, but I think it's not properly linked.
When I type "man curl" it shows all manual docs about curl. But it's not working, please help me guys.
                Try 'sudo ldconfig'.  There are a couple of posts on the internet about that issue.  Did you originally compile when you installed, or did you use the apt package manager ?
– SScotti
                Sep 20, 2021 at 14:42
                @SScotti I tried this command before after the compilation but it didn't work. First I used the apt package manager but when it didn't work I used the compilation method.
– PS95
                Sep 20, 2021 at 17:13
                Hey guys, I found a solution. 1). First I used this command "sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/curl*" to remove curl from from.
– PS95
                Sep 21, 2021 at 2:17
I found a solution. First I used this command sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/curl* to remove curl from this location. Then if I type curl it shows me the error bash: /usr/local/bin/curl: No such file or directory. Then I used type curl which gave me the output curl is hashed (/snap/bin/curl). Then I used hash -d curl, after this my curl started working.
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– Basti Funck
                Nov 1, 2021 at 13:41
                The problem is that snap curl has some issues that break other libraries. Wehn I try to use nvm or rvm for instance, curl seems to be unable to create new files, so I changed to curl from apt... And the problem came back. I am looking for a solution that keeps me from using curl from snap.
– André Guimarães Aragon
                Nov 4, 2022 at 12:35
I found a different solution for this problem. I did the following:
1st - find out where was the dependency of curl to libcurl. For some reason there is an issue with this link.
sudo ldd $(which curl) | grep libcurl
The output pointed to a link at the following location:
/usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4
Then I used the command:
sudo apt-get purge curl
After purging curl, I checked to see if that file was there, and it was there indeed. So I did the following:
sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4 (or the path that you got previously)
And than I reinstalled curl with the following commando:
sudo apt-get install curl
And everything started working afterwards!!!
Note: Problem returns after installing certain packages
After installing other packages the problem came back and I had to repeat the process. So it is not a very stable solution. Apparently the file that I deleted was created back again. I am still looking for a permanent solution.
I was getting the following error.

~> curl
curl: symbol lookup error: curl: undefined symbol: curl_url_set, version CURL_OPENSSL_4
I reinstalled curl with snap and it solved my problem.
~> sudo apt remove curl
~> sudo snap install curl
I also had a curl image with docker if necessary.
~> docker run curlimages/curl google.com
        
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