Looks like Apple has neglected to include the command line tool wget for a while now. I was able to find a precompiled binary for 10.4, but 10.5 is so recent that it looks like wget hasn’t make it’s way on to the tubes. If you’re looking for wget why not build it yourself? The install is pretty straight forward with no modifications or file editing required. Directions are as follows:
- Install Apple’s Dev Tools.
- Download wget’s source.
- Unpack the download: tar xzvf wget-1.12.tar.gz
- Open a terminal and “cd” in to the unpacked wget directory
- Configure the build with
./configure - Start the build process with
make - Finish the install with
sudo make install
You should be able to find wget in /usr/local/bin . I’ve confirmed that this works with 10.5.1 Leopard on PowerPC and Intel processors.
You can download my pre-compiled binary Intel Binary and
Power PC binary
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