wget is a really handy command line utility, but unfortunately not included in OS X. Curl could be a suitable replacement, but frequently scripts are written with wget, and it can be difficult and time-consuming to convert them to using curl.
Below are the steps required to install a working wget on Mac OS X. This has been tested on OS X 10.6 Lion.
Install XCode from http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 (at this time, it’s a 1.5GB download.)
Launch XCode, updating if necessary.
Go to Preferences > Downloads, and install Command Line Tools
Now open a terminal and perform the following steps at the command line one at a time to download, extract, configure, compile, and install wget:
curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.14.tar.gz tar xvzf wget-1.14.tar.gz cd wget-1.14 ./configure --with-ssl=openssl make sudo make install
You should now have a working wget installed in /usr/local/bin. Confirm by trying
$ wget wget: missing URL Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... Try `wget --help' for more options.
Feel free to comment below. Thanks!
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gulli
April 7, 2013 at 8:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Mike,
Thanks for the info.
I followed your instructions to install wget
but this is what I get:
-bash: wget: command not found
I tried it twice, thinking that the initial try that I had done in the Downloads folder may have been the cause but not.
Also, the curl command does not relaly download the file from the GNU ftp site.
It downloads a file that cannot be unzipped (only 308 bytes in size).
I used the browser to get the correct file…
Thanks again.
Gulli
Mike
April 18, 2013 at 8:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Might be an issue with curl, but I don’t think so. It worked when I tried it.
Anyone else having this issue?
Barry
April 25, 2013 at 7:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Had the same thing when I copied and pasted straight from the page.
Roll over the 6 numbered lines and on the right 4 icons appear, click the first one “view source” and copy the lines one at a time from there.
I guess the copied text needs to be clean…?
Hope that helps you too ;)
Dheeraj
April 26, 2013 at 3:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Having some issues:
[13:52:14] dkhanna@MacBookPro1:~/Documents/abcd
$ cd wget-1.14
[13:52:21] dkhanna@MacBookPro1:~/Documents/abcd/wget-1.14
$ sudo ./configure –with-ssl=openssl
configure: configuring for GNU Wget 1.14
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… build-aux/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk… no
checking for mawk… no
checking for nawk… no
checking for awk… awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… no
checking build system type… i386-apple-darwin12.3.0
checking host system type… i386-apple-darwin12.3.0
checking for gcc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cl.exe… no
configure: error: in `/Users/dkhanna/Documents/abcd/wget-1.14′:
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log’ for more details
[13:52:41] dkhanna@MacBookPro1:~/Documents/abcd/wget-1.14
$ sudo make
sudo: make: command not found
[13:53:08] dkhanna@MacBookPro1:~/Documents/abcd/wget-1.14
$ sudo make install
sudo: make: command not found
[13:53:22] dkhanna@MacBookPro1:~/Documents/abcd/wget-1.14
$
Can you please look at this and tell me what should i do ?
I was able to get binary for wget from internet since i didnt wanted to install xcode. Would you be able to guide me if i can complete installation using the binary directly as thats eventually what ‘make’ creates.