Sorry to jump in uninvited, not fwiw I have used curl from my 2007 old MacBook.
> On Feb 6, 2020, at 6:23 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 the brew instruction warns that xCode is out of date, but I cannot 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
