WGET

Mac provides curl, however sometime using wget is more handy. This post is for installing wget for Mac. by following the below mentined steps:

Method 1

In most of tutorials, installing wget using curl is recommended . However I ran into several issues using this approach. I will share it with you guys. First you need to install the xcode command line tools, easiest way to do so by running in the Terminal

xcode-select --install

1. Download wget using curl

curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.15.tar.gz

1. Unpack it using

tar -zxvf wget-1.15.tar.gz

1. cd to folder using

cd wget-1.15/

4. Then configure

./configure

I have got following error that

Error

configure: error: --with-ssl=gnutls was given, but GNUTLS is not available.

we can skip this error using

./configure --with-ssl=openssl

However, this also leads to another error shown below

configure: error: --with-ssl=openssl was given, but SSL is not available

Method 2

1. We can easily go around aforementioned error as brew will automatically install dependencies forwget and openssl. Gor doing this you must have brew installed

brew install wget

as shown below, it will automatically download the dependency

==> Installing dependencies for wget: openssl
==> Installing wget dependency: openssl
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/openssl-1.0.2j.sierra.bottle.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring openssl-1.0.2j.sierra.bottle.tar.gz

1. For checking is wget is installed successfully, please cd to paricular folder and enter

wget -O sample.txt http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1787/pg1787.txt

text will be generated from link http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1787/pg1787.txt and saved as sample.txt

Success

Congrats, we have successfully installed wget on mac.If you have some issues or suggestions, please feel free to comment below.

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