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Installed Program:
wget
Installed Libraries:
None
Installed Directories:
None
Introduction to Wget
The Wget package contains a utility useful for non-interactive downloading of files from the Web.
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Note
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 13.1 platform.
Package Information
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Download (HTTP): https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.25.0.tar.gz
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Download MD5 sum: c70ba58b36f944e8ba1d655ace552881
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Download size: 5.0 MB
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Estimated disk space required: 38 MB (add 27 MB for tests)
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Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (add 0.4 SBU for tests)
Wget Dependencies
Recommended
Recommended at runtime
Optional
GnuTLS-3.8.13, HTTP-Daemon-6.17 (for the test suite), IO-Socket-SSL-2.099 (for the test suite), libidn2-2.3.8, libproxy-0.5.12, and Valgrind-3.27.1 (for the test suite)
Installation of Wget
First, make a fix to make the package compatible with OpenSSL 4. The bash variable is for presentation purposes due to the long line.
NEW_LINE='#if !defined OPENSSL_NO_SSL3_METHOD ' NEW_LINE+='&& OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x40000000L' sed -i "/SSL3/c $NEW_LINE" src/openssl.c unset NEW_LINE
Install Wget by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--with-ssl=openssl &&
make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
Command Explanations
--sysconfdir=/etc: This
relocates the configuration file from /usr/etc to /etc.
--with-ssl=openssl: This
allows the program to use openssl instead of GnuTLS-3.8.13.
--enable-libproxy: This switch allows
wget to use libproxy for proxy configuration. Use it if you have
the libproxy-0.5.12 package installed and wish to
use a proxy server.
--enable-valgrind-tests: This allows
the tests to be run under valgrind.