Wget For Mac Os
How to install wget on your Mac#
Ok, so Mac is cool and stuff, but it doesn't come with wget by default, which in my opinion sucks. wget is a very useful tool and is used for downloading installation files among other stuff; it ought to be there on your Mac.
Getting wget on Mac OS X is pretty easy, so worry not. Just follow my instructions. Before that make sure you have a C/C++ compiler on your system, if you have XCode, you are all set and ready.
The first step, of course, is downloading the wget source code. We'll have to use our browser to download that since we don't have wget yet. Get the wget source from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/, scroll down for the latest version. The latest version as of writing this post is wget-1.13.tar.gz.
I try to install wget in MAC OS 10.11.1 but when I run./configure -with-ssl=openssl I get this error: configure: error: -with-ssl=openssl was given, but SSL is not available. How to resolve this. Install wget on Mac OS X. In simple words, it is a command to download file from a given URL and port. Most Linux users and some windows users are familiar to this handy command download tool and on most Linux distributions it is pre-installed, but on Max OSX it.
Once you have downloaded the source, unarchive it using Archive Utility (just double-click the downloaded file to get a new folder which looks like wget-1.13). Now open a terminal, cd to wget-1.13 directory, and do the following:
There you! Now you have wget installed on your Mac. Confirm it this way.
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Did wget fail to install because of some dependencies? Maybe you wanna go a less hardcore but very easy way, and manage all the packages on your system using Homebrew instead. Installing wget using Homebrew is as easy as doing this:
Wget For Macos
Homebrew is highly recommended for managing the UNIX packages on your Mac. I could have straightaway told you the Homebrew way but you'd have missed some valuable lessons if I did. The instructions for installing Homebrew can be found here. Get it!