Comments on: How to install wget in Mac OS X

By: Dheeraj

Dheeraj — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:58:32 +0000

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.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:18:11 +0000

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 ;)

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:19:42 +0000

Might be an issue with curl, but I don’t think so. It worked when I tried it.

Anyone else having this issue?

By: gulli

gulli — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:15:21 +0000

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