[scarab]

hey guys

please help

i downloaded wget 1.7.1, 1.5.3, 1.8.1 and 1.6 (you can see how desperate I am) and could not get it to install at all. could anyone please guide me through? i'm a real scared unix newbie.


when i navigate to the right directory and type 'make install', i get
"make: Nothing to be done for `install'."

[rkt]

Originally posted by scarab:
<STRONG>when i navigate to the right directory and type 'make install', i get
"make: Nothing to be done for `install'."</STRONG>

wget-1.8.1 compiles fine.

% cd /tmp
% curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.8.1.tar.gz
% gnutar -zxf wget-1.8.1.tar.gz
% cd wget-1.8.1
% ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-nls
% make
% sudo make install

[ 01-07-2002: Message edited by: rkt ]

[[APi]TheMan]

Screw compiling such a simple application as wget, get the pre-packaged binary from macos.forked.net. Or here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/morein...d=13043&db=mac

[scarab]

Thanks! I went the terminal way because my geeky instincts overpowered me

[petej]

curl does seem to do everything wget does and more, and it's installed as part of OS X now.

[Wevah]

Curl roxx0rz [sic].

;p

[amonitzer]

Originally posted by petej:
<STRONG>curl does seem to do everything wget does and more, and it's installed as part of OS X now.</STRONG>

curl doesn't resume automatically and doesn't keep trying to log into a server, so it's pretty useless for less-than-perfect conditions.

[petej]

That's true; you'd have to script a solution around curl for that. Curl does support resuming transfers, and you can get the existing size of the file automatically, so the scripted solution wouldn't be too hard, but this does seem to be an area in which wget does something curl doesn't.

Curl does SSL transfers, though, which I find helpful; wget doesn't seem to do them, at least as shipped.

[petej]

It looks like you could script a transfer with retries like this:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>
#!/bin/sh

KEEPTRYING=<font color = blue>1</font>

while $KEEPTRYING
do
if [ -r fileIwant ] then
curl -C `ls -l fileIwant | awk '{print $<font color = blue>5</font>}'` <A HREF=<font color = red>"http:<font color = brown>//somesite/fileIwant"</font> TARGET=_blank>http://somesite/fileIwant</A> </font>
else
curl <A HREF=<font color = red>"http:<font color = brown>//somesite/fileIwant"</font> TARGET=_blank>http://somesite/fileIwant</A> </font>
fi
KEEPTRYING=$?
sleep <font color = blue>5</font>
done

</font>[/code]

If you got the site or filename wrong, this would repeat forever, so the sleep 5 keeps the command from chewing up your system.

I didn't actually run this, so I don't know for sure it works, but the general principles are right.

[rkt]

Originally posted by petej:
<STRONG>Curl does SSL transfers, though, which I find helpful; wget doesn't seem to do them, at least as shipped.</STRONG>

wget doesn't currently support ssl.

[AndyT]

I can't see a recursive option in "curl --help"