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Joomla! version: n/a
PHP version: 5.3+
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Host: localhost
Akeeba eXtract Wizard / Remote CLI / SiteDiff version: Remote CLI

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Description of my issue:
When trying to test Remote CLI prior to building a control script for automation, I am trying to test from the command line, but I am receiveing a curl error from the remote.phar file as shown below. Please advise.
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root@chi:/data/nickb# php remote.phar --action=test --host=http://localhost --secret=iloveakeeba Akeeba Remote Control CLI 1.2 (2012-03-05)
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PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in phar:///data/nickb/remote.phar/api/api.php on line 59
root@chi:/data/nickb#
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Hi Nic - thanks for the prompt response.
I am running the script on a local server, which is the manager for a number of remote sites... and I could not get it to work locally. Having seen your response, which I had already seen on another thread, I took another look at my local configuration.

Lo and behold! Despite it being what I thought was a full install, with a complete XAMPP stack and all the bells and whistles, cURL was not installed it seems!!!
After a quick google, I found a suggestion that Ubuntu requires the the php5-curl package to be installed manually. So...

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

and WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP!!! - everything now seems to work fine. Well your part of it anyway. The bugs in my script I will figure out later. Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction and for such a great utility package. Akeeba is a lifesaver!

NickB