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Fink + wget
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Sep 16, 2007, 05:28 PM
 
I wanted to use wget to download some files from gutenberg.org so I installed Fink and Fink Commander and installed wget. I installed Fink using the root user and installed FC with my normal account. Everything went fine and FC shows that wget is installed. When I try to use wget I get the error: command not found.
This is OSX 10.4.10 with the latest Fink and FC. I used Fink on 10.3.9 without a problem doing, I guess, everything the same way. I have no idea why it's not working. I removed /sw and installed everything again, but the problem persists. Repairing permissions doesn't show anything out of the ordinary either.
Weird thing is, a wget gui does get some file from the website, but doesn't work with all the extra commands like -R mp3. When I try wget via terminal I still get: unknown command.

With slackware(linux) you had to use 'updatedb' to update the directory tree if something wasn't working, I think I need to do something similar here, but I have no idea how.

EDIT: directory tree update done with 'update', nothing changed
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Sep 16, 2007, 06:17 PM
 
Alright, call me stupid.
Instead of focusing on the fink+wget problem, I downloaded wget for OSX and that works
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