yum command fails with 'libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' error

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • yum update command giving below error:
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules 
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:   
libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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