On a Mac the program curl should be used, not wget. I think curl should be on any mac system. Do you not have curl? Probably better to figure out how to fix the curl problem instead of working with homebrew.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 6:03 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > You should not get an error message about wget if wget does not exist. > That said, it looks like you did not remove /usr/local/bin/wget which > was what the error message in J talks about. > > This may indicate a permissions problem, or a $PATH problem. > > Try the wget you have installed using brew, from the command line: > > wget https://jsoftware.com > > If this works (creates a local file), then you should check to see if > the wget you are using is the same one mentioned in the error message > in your J session. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 5:57 PM Brian Schott <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Raul, > > > > I still get the same error. I suspect my old Mac OS is the problem > because > > the brew instruction warns that xCode is out of date, but I cannot > upgrade > > it to the desired version, either. > > > > I also tried to remove wget as I show below, but got the same error > message. > > > > server:~ brian$ cd /usr/local/bin > > server:bin brian$ ls -l wget > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 brian admin 32 Feb 6 17:39 wget -> > > ../Cellar/wget/1.20.3_2/bin/wget > > server:bin brian$ mv wget wgetbak > > server:bin brian$ > > > > Thanks for your help, but I'm stuck. > > > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 5:27 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Yes, you need to use the upgrade sub-command instead of the install > > > sub-command. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -- > > > Raul > > > > > > (B=) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
