Install wget on Mac OS X

Posted on the March 8th, 2008 under Computers,Mac by Martin Bergek

Mac OS X comes without support for wget but this limitation is easily fixed. Start off by signing up to Apple Developer Connection and download XCode 3.0 – it’s a free but rather big download. Then open a terminal window and type:

ftp ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz
tar -xvzf wget-latest.tar.gz
cd wget-{version}
./configure
make
sudo make install

Replace {version} with the version of wget that was downloaded (shown when unpacking the archive).

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11 Responses to 'Install wget on Mac OS X'

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  1. July 25, 2009 at 07:29
    Cristina

    Thanks Martin, really helped, it went fast and clean :) .
    Cristina

  2. September 7, 2009 at 17:40
    jamik

    Thank you!

  3. October 1, 2009 at 03:14
    OwlBoy

    You need Xcode 3.1.3 for Mac OS X 10.5. 3.2 for Mac OS X 10.6.

  4. November 9, 2009 at 07:22
    Al

    Thanks!

  5. February 4, 2010 at 03:52
    lin

    Thanks a mil!!!

  6. March 18, 2010 at 19:37
    joseph dhahbi

    thank you for your help. Very simple and clear!

  7. September 28, 2010 at 03:27
    Nikolay

    That is how instructions must be made!!! Awesome!

  8. December 3, 2010 at 21:42
    Required

    configure: configuring for GNU Wget 1.12
    checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
    checking whether build environment is sane… yes
    checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… build-aux/install-sh -c -d
    checking for gawk… no
    checking for mawk… no
    checking for nawk… no
    checking for awk… awk
    checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… no
    checking build system type… i386-apple-darwin10.5.0
    checking host system type… i386-apple-darwin10.5.0
    checking for gcc… no
    checking for cc… no
    checking for cl.exe… no
    configure: error: in `/Users/me/wget-1.12′:
    configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
    See `config.log’ for more details.

  9. December 20, 2010 at 23:14
    mdahlman

    Thanks! You’re a hero. Providing detailed steps like that is fantastically helpful for the non-developers among us.

  10. May 12, 2011 at 18:48
    Brant

    Time for “a little wget magic… kids’ stuff.” Thanks! Anyone looking to download an entire site using wget might like: http://linuxreviews.org/quicktips/wget/