why doesn't wget work?
christoph
On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 07:43 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
>
>> Manual download isn't too hard.
>>
>> 1) See what URL curl is using to get the file.
>> 2) Using your favorite ftp client or web browser, go to the same URL
>> and
>> download the file.
>> 3) Move ('sudo mv') the downloaded file to /sw/src.
>> 4) 'fink install' the package.
>
> I.e.
>
> 1) Look up what URl curl is complaining over, call it say $blat for
> $bar
> 2) cd /sw/src && sudo wget $blat && sudo fink install $bar
>
> Granted I cheated & that's still four steps, with three of them slurped
> onto one line. The key point though is that you can just short circuit
> moving it around if you download where you want it in the first place.
>
> Bigger question: is there somewhere in Fink's configuration that I can
> replace the default 'curl' with 'wget'? I routinely have a hard time
> downloading things with the former, but if I can't do it with the latter
> then the problem is almost always with the resource being unavailable in
> the first place (dead or changed link, server down, etc), rather than
> problem with firewalls, ftp-passive mode, etc.
>
>
>
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