Well, it's not that it doesn't work really; rather there are a slew of
reasons why a download can fail (404 not found, permission error on the
server end, host not available, new url, network failure, proxy error,
etc). It seems like, for me, Curl gets stuck on such things a lot more
quickly than Wget does. If Curl failed, it could be a configuration
problem of some kind; if wget fails it's more likely to be that the
resource itself is inaccessible for some reason, and it would be easier to
look for it elsewhere. That's all...
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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