How to Install and Use wget - Revision history

Docs admin at 15:52, 9 October 2012

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-<html> wget is a non-interactive downloader. You can skip a few steps for getting a download onto your server using it.<br /><br />For example, let's say you want to install cPanel on your server. You would normally go to:
+wget is a non-interactive downloader.  Using wget, you can download files directly to your server or hosting account.
- <a href="http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest">http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest</a>
- and download the latest install to your desktop. You would then have to open your FTP client and upload the file to your server.<br /><br />wget cuts your time in half.<br /><br /><strong>***Install wget***</strong><br /><br />First, you will want to see if wget is installed. You can do so by running this command via SSH when logged in as root:
+For example, let's say you want to install cPanel on your server. You would normally go to:
-<div class="code_style">which wget</div>
-<br />If wget is installed, the output of the above command should be:<br /><br />
+http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest
-<div class="code_style">/usr/bin/wget</div>
-<br />If wget is not installed on your server, here are the commands to install it for CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu when logged into your server via SSH as root:<br /><br />CentOS:<br /><br />
+and download the latest install to your desktop. You would then have to open your FTP client and upload the file to your server.
-<div class="code_style">yum install wget</div>
-<br />Debian/Ubuntu:<br /><br />
+wget cuts your time in half by allowing you to directly download the file to your server.
-<div class="code_style">sudo apt-get install wget</div>
-<br /><strong>***Using wget***</strong><br /><br />Now that you have wget installed, you can issue the command to download any file that you have the URL for. <em>You will want to make sure you're located in the directory where you're wanting to download the file to before issuing the wget command.</em><br /><br />We were using cPanel as the example earlier, so the command would be:<br /><br />
+==Install wget==
-<div class="code_style">wget http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest</div>
-<br />And you're done!</html> [[Category:Technical Support FAQ]]
+[1] See if wget is installed. You can do so by running this command via SSH when logged in as root:

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2012-10-09T15:43:11Z

Docs admin moved page How to Install/Use wget to How to Install and Use wget

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<html> wget is a non-interactive downloader. You can skip a few steps for getting a download onto your server using it.<br /><br />For example, let's say you want to install cPanel on your server. You would normally go to:
<a href="http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest">http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest</a>
and download the latest install to your desktop. You would then have to open your FTP client and upload the file to your server.<br /><br />wget cuts your time in half.<br /><br /><strong>***Install wget***</strong><br /><br />First, you will want to see if wget is installed. You can do so by running this command via SSH when logged in as root:
<div class="code_style">which wget</div>
<br />If wget is installed, the output of the above command should be:<br /><br />
<div class="code_style">/usr/bin/wget</div>
<br />If wget is not installed on your server, here are the commands to install it for CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu when logged into your server via SSH as root:<br /><br />CentOS:<br /><br />
<div class="code_style">yum install wget</div>
<br />Debian/Ubuntu:<br /><br />
<div class="code_style">sudo apt-get install wget</div>
<br /><strong>***Using wget***</strong><br /><br />Now that you have wget installed, you can issue the command to download any file that you have the URL for. <em>You will want to make sure you're located in the directory where you're wanting to download the file to before issuing the wget command.</em><br /><br />We were using cPanel as the example earlier, so the command would be:<br /><br />
<div class="code_style">wget http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest</div>
<br />And you're done!</html> [[Category:Technical Support FAQ]]