How to install wget to your server
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posted by 2Guns
There're two compressed versions of wget available on the download page(you
can find the link below). *.zip version and *.tar.gz version.
If you decide to download *.zip version, simply unzip it and upload it to
your server using your FTP software of choice. Jump to "installation"
section if you decided to download the *.zip
If you decide to *.tar.gz version, upload it to your server using your FTP
software of choice. Then login through ssh or telnet to the server and
unpack the file using;
tar -zxvf wget-1.9.tar.gz
The additional `z' at the beginning of the options list tells tar to
uncompress the file with gunzip before extracting the tarfile's
components.
Installation
At this point, the wget sources should be sitting in a directory. Login
through ssh or telnet to the server and cd to the wget directory.
cd wget-1.9 (or whatever your wget directory name is)
Compile it with the following commands;
./configure
make
If the make completes successfully, the odds are fairly good that the build
has gone well.
To install wget, become the superuser by typing SU and entering your
superuser password and type
make install
The standard installation process will copy the wget binary to
/usr/local/bin, install the info pages (wget.info*) to /usr/local/info. You
can customize the directories either through the configuration process or
making the necessary changes in the Makefile.
To delete the files created by Wget installation, you can use make
uninstall.