Wget install mac os

Mac OS X Install wget Network Downloader Utility

I recently learned that “wget” can continue getting a partially-downloaded (resume download) file. I am unable to find wget command on Mac OS X. How do I install install wget on Mac OS X (Mountain Lion/ Mavericks / Snow Leopard / Big Sur)? How can I install wget in Mac OS X without 3rd-party repo such as Homebrew or MacPorts?

Tutorial details
Difficulty level	Easy
Root privileges	No
Requirements	macOS and xcode
Est. reading time	6 minutes

You can install the latest version of GNU/wget and many other open source software without using Homebrew or MacPorts. The steps are as follows to install wget on macOS Sierra using either Homebrew or source code:

1. Easy method #1: Install Homebrew and type command ‘ brew install wget ‘ on macOS Sierra.
2. Source code method #2:
   1. Download, compile and install OpenSSL
   2. Download, compile and install wget on macOS Sierra

Let use see both methods in detailed.

Method #1: Install wget using brew (recommended method)

Trust me this is the best and easy method to install wget using Homebrew. First install Homebrew on macOS.

Install Homebrew

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e «$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)»

Install wget

$ brew install wget
Sample outputs:

Use wget

$ /usr/local/bin/wget url
$ /usr/local/bin/wget url/file.tar.gz
$ /usr/local/bin/wget https://www.cyberciti.biz/
That is all, and you need to stop reading the rest. Please note that the rest of the following tutorial covers wget command installation using the source code method.

Method #2: Install wget using source code (recommended for advanced users only)

You need to install a free app called Xcode. It includes command line development tools such as gnu/gcc and friends. See how to install GCC Compiler with Xcode for more information.

Fig.01: Install gcc compiler on Mac OS X

Step #1: Download gnu/wget source code

Use curl command as follows to download the latest gnu/wget from the official project site. Open the Terminal and than type the following commands:
$ cd /tmp
$ curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.15.tar.gz
$ ls -l
Sample outputs:

Fig.02: Downloading wget source code with the curl utility

Step #2: Extract files

Use the tar command to extract files on OS X as follows:
$ tar xvf wget-1.15.tar.gz
Sample outputs:

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Step #3: Configure, Compile and Install GNU/wget on OS X

First, cd to the wget-1.15 directory using cd command:
$ cd wget-1.15
To configure wget, enter:
$ ./configure —with-ssl=openssl
Sample outputs:

To compile wget on OS X, enter:
$ make
Sample outputs:

To install wget, enter:
$ sudo make install

Find out wget location on OS X

By default wget will be installed at the /usr/local/bin/wget . You can use the whereis utility (or type -a) to check the wget location, enter:
$ whereis wget
OR
$ type -a wget
If you do not see output, edit $HOME/.bash_profile or $HOME/.bashrc and add/edit/append PATH as follows:
export PATH=$:/usr/local/bin
Save and close the file.

How do I use wget command?

The basic syntax is:
wget url
wget http://www.cyberciti.biz/
wget ftp://url/
To see wget version, type:
$ wget —version
Sample outputs:

Installed wget on macOS Sierra

How do I update installed gnu/wget on OS X?

Warning : The following method only works if you installed gnu/wget earlier using source code based method as described above. Do not use the following method if you installed wget using Homebrew or MacPorts.

A note about installing wget on macOS Sierra using source code

You need to first install the latest version of openssl:
### Step #1: Grab and install latest openssl version 1.19.1 using source code ###
$ cd /tmp/
$ curl -O https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0e.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf openssl-1.1.0e.tar.gz
$ cd openssl-1.1.0e
$ ./config
$ make
$ sudo make install
Finally install wget using the following method:
### Step #2: Grab and install wget version 1.19.1 using source code ###
$ cd /tmp
$ curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.19.1.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf wget-1.19.1.tar.gz
$ cd wget-1.19.1
$ export OPENSSL_CFLAGS=»-I/usr/local/include»
$ export OPENSSL_LIBS=»-L/usr/local/lib -lssl -lcrypto -lz»
$ ./configure —with-ssl=openssl
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ /usr/local/bin/wget url

See also

I recommend the following resources for usage and examples on both wget and curl commands:

And there you have it, gnu/wget installed from directly source code without using 3rd party repos.

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Worked like magic on my OSX 10.6.8 ! More PLZ!

I don’t use a MAC but would like to thank and congratulate the poster on his excellent and comprehensive reply.. Great work!

I was inspired so i looked up something else – today successfully compiled Nmap from source. ( link – nmap.org/download.html#source )
I also tried mtr, but that failed. May look into it later.

This also on OSX 10.6.8 of course.

Awesome, thanks so much for helping!…

Alternatively, one could have Macports (https://www.macports.org/) installed and simply install wget via the CLI:

Then create a link to wget, and use it from the CLI like on any other posix box:

It came to me with below?
sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/wget /usr/bin/wget
ln: /usr/bin/wget: Operation not permitted
tkx302:rgtdata ye.liu$

curl can also resume a partially downloaded file, even on mac os x. I see why you need wget for this…

just do:
$ curl -C –

A better way would be to install Homebrew and then install wget through it.

Why is this way better than any of the others suggested?

It only take 2 minutes provided that you *trust Homebrew devs* not to install backdoor in GNU wget. Having said that I used the ‘brew install wget’ method. As it was very easy and I am lazy af. I trust Homebrew devs 🙂 YMMV.

configure: error: in `/Users/blue/wget-1.16.3′:
configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it
is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
path to pkg-config.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables OPENSSL_CFLAGS
and OPENSSL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

To get pkg-config, see .
See `config.log’ for more details
blue:wget-1.16.3 blue$ make
There seems to be no Makefile in this directory.
You must run ./configure before running ‘make’.
make: *** [abort-due-to-no-makefile] Error 1

I can’t use make… I even used just ./configure but same result, please help…

I have the same issue here, still can’t figure it out how to do this. Any luck with “no Makefile” ?

Blue phoenix and Jeannie, I have updated the page to install latest version of wget 1.19.1 on macOS Sierra. Check it out and let me know.

I’m late to this party but I want to sincerely thank the poster for this, very much. It’s unbelievable how difficult it is to find such basic information like this anymore. Now, it’s all one after the other, parroting the “use homebrew” BS. Anyway this is an excellent, concise, incredibly useful guide, thank you.

(And, soapbox: sorry for being old-school and with decades of an InfoSec background drilled into me, but there is something very decidedly fishy about Homebrew. In my opinion, anyone who relies on “package managers” to install everything, basically giving the keys to their system to some anonymous “developers”, is cognitively deficient. Which unfortunately seems to be most these days. Homebrew is easily the worst and most suspicious. It came out of nowhere several years back and has been relentlessly pushed ever since. Relentlessly. There is something absolutely dirty behind it, beyond a doubt. Those with eyes to see and minds to think will know exactly what I’m saying, and will have come to the same thinking and conclusions long ago. The rest: back to sleep…)

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💄 Как установить и использовать Wget на Mac

wget – это надежное приложение командной строки для загрузки ресурсов, указанных в URL.

Он был разработан для превосходной работы даже при плохом соединении.

Его уникальная особенность по сравнению с curl, который поставляется, например, с macOS, заключается в том, что он неинтерактивен, поэтому может работать в фоновом режиме.

Есть 2 способа установить wget: через Xcode или Homebrew, и я расскажу об обоих методах, так как не все используют Xcode или Homebrew.

Установка Wget через Xcode

Установка wget на Mac через XCode требует сборки инструмента из исходного кода, и шаги одинаковы для всех версий Mac:

Сначала установите Xcode через iTunes, а затем установите инструменты командной строки Xcode с помощью команды:

Загрузите исходный код wget, используя curl:

Извлеките и перейдите в папку и выполните команду configure:

Выполните make и и протестируйте wget:

Если при запуске команды configure выдается ошибка, запустите ее с флагом SSL, например:

Не забудьте удалить ненужные файлы после завершения установки.

Установка Wget через Homebrew

Homebrew – это менеджер пакетов для OS X, который значительно упрощает установку и управление приложениями для пользователей Mac.

Есть альтернативы, такие как Fink и MacPorts, но я предпочитаю использовать Homebrew.

Установите Homebrew с помощью следующей команды,команда также установит инструменты командной строки Xcode, если они еще не установлены:

Затем установите клиент для загрузки из командной строки wget.

Как использовать Wget на Mac

Если URL-адрес файла или каталога общедоступен, его можно загрузить, а файлы можно загружать отдельно или рекурсивно при загрузке каталогов.

Скачивание одного файла

Синтаксис прост. команда wget, -X для указания пути к файлу (если вы не хотите сохранить загруженный контент в текущий рабочий каталог) и публичная ссылка.

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I try to install wget in MAC OS 10.11.1 but when I run ./configure —with-ssl=openssl I get this error:

How to resolve this problem in OSX 10.11.1?

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Using brew

And then install wget with brew:

Using MacPorts

First, download and run MacPorts installer (.pkg)

And then install wget:

For macOS Sierra, to build wget 1.18 from source with Xcode 8.2.

Since Xcode doesn’t come with OpenSSL lib, you need build by yourself. I found this: https://github.com/sqlcipher/openssl-xcode, follow instruction and build OpenSSL lib. Then, prepare your OpenSSL directory with «include» and «lib/libcrypto.a», «lib/libssl.a» in it.

Let’s say it is: «/Users/xxx/openssl-xcode/openssl», so there should be «/Users/xxx/openssl-xcode/openssl/include» for OpenSSL include and «/Users/xxx/openssl-xcode/openssl/lib» for «libcrypto.a» and «libssl.a».

Go to wget directory, configure:

wget should configure and found OpenSSL, then make:

wget made out. Install wget:

Or just copy wget to where you want.

You may find wget cannot verify any https connection, because there is no CA certs for the OpenSSL you built. You need to run:

New way:

If you machine doesn’t have «/usr/local/ssl/» dir, first make it.

Old way:

Then put cert.pem to: «/usr/local/ssl/cert.pem»

DONE: It should be all right now.

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