Here's what I did to "solve" it on 18.04
{{{ git clone https://github.com/curl/curl.git cd curl git checkout curl-7_58_0 autoreconf -i sudo mkdir /opt/curl ./configure --prefix=/opt/curl make sudo make install ln -s /opt/curl/bin/curl* /usr/local/bin/ }}}
Of course, that doesn't really fix anything, but it gets a compatible version of curl on to this system.
Here's what I did to "solve" it on 18.04
{{{ /github. com/curl/ curl.git
git clone https:/
cd curl
git checkout curl-7_58_0
autoreconf -i
sudo mkdir /opt/curl
./configure --prefix=/opt/curl
make
sudo make install
ln -s /opt/curl/bin/curl* /usr/local/bin/
}}}
Of course, that doesn't really fix anything, but it gets a compatible version of curl on to this system.