The Apple OS X 10.5 comes with “curl”, but most people prefer using wget when using Terminal. Here is an easy way to build and install wget;
Requirements:
- First things first 😉 – Download and Install Apple’s Xcode Developer Tools
Downloads:
- dowload the source code for GNU wget from http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
Installation:
- Unzip / Extract the download in to a directory
(could be on the desktop) - cd /Users/techdust/Desktop/wget-1.2
(go to the specific directory) - ./configure
(configure the source code for your system – and into the default location -/usr/local/bin-) - make
(type “make” to build wget binaries) - sudo make install
(install binaries by typing “sudo make install”)
You’re all done. To run wget just restart your terminal session and type in “wget”.