macOS Mojave, Sierra, and earlier versions come with the command line utility called ‘curl‘ which is a network transfer tool, it does not come with the popular ‘wget‘, in fact, ‘curl‘ can probably get you by just fine, check man curl at the command line to see its usage.
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Otherwise, let’s look at getting ‘wget‘… this can be done in 3 ways.
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Oct 03, 2018 wget needs to have some type of SSL support GNUTLS is most probably not available on your OS X system – if so use OpenSSL in the configure as an alternative use so re-run the configure with an SSL flag./configure -with-ssl=openssl make sudo make install. That’s it done, wget will be installed in: /usr/local/bin/wget Clean Up.
1 – Install as Point and Click
Download and run the package from Rudix
2 – Compile from Source
To add and install wget to your system you need to download the source files, compile the code and make an install. To compile the code you need a compiler, unfortunately, it doesn’t come with macOS by default you need to install the free Xcode suite from Apple which includes the GCC compiler. This process also works exactly the same in previous macOS and OSX versions.
Get Xcode
Get the latest via Xcode via iTunes.
Next you need to install the Xcode command line tools, easiest way to do so by running in the Terminal:
Using curl to get wget
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Get the latest wget source code from the ftp repository, or using curl from the command line:
Extract it and move into it
Configure and Install it
an error may occur on SSL…
wget needs to have some type of SSL support GNUTLS is most probably not available on your OS X system – if so use OpenSSL in the configure as an alternative use so re-run the configure with an SSL flag:
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That’s it done, wget will be installed in:
Clean Up
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Remove the source code and compressed file:
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Test wget
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Everything should work out fine – if you need to install more Unix style tools it will be faster and better to install a Package Manager for OSX like Homebrew – it makes installing and maintaining these applications so easy,