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Web site:	https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
Repository:	https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget

HOWTO

# GNU Wget 1.21.4
# ===============
# Slackware 14.0, 14.1: wget 1.14
# Slackware 14.2: wget 1.18
# Slackware 15.0: wget2 2.0.0

# There is now a wget2, and as of Slackware 15.0, Slackware includes that
# (and not 'wget'):
# wget2 HOWTO

# Prerequisites:
# lzip (to extract the tarball)
# flex
# gettext (without --disable-nls)
# libc's iconv or libiconv
# libunistring
# pkg-config
# libpsl (optional)
# zlib
# GnuTLS or OpenSSL or LibreSSL (optional)'
# Nettle
# Perl
# libidn2
# PCRE
# GPGME (optional)
# libmetalink (optional)
# texinfo (optional)
# Python (optional)
# Valgrind (optional; for --enable-valgrind-tests)

# If you have an old Wget installed, especially one installed under a
# different prefix (we use /usr below), see the bottom for how to uninstall
# it

# NOTE: As of version 1.13.3, the default for SSL/TLS is GnuTLS, no longer
# OpenSSL.  To use OpenSSL, pass --with-ssl=openssl

# wget 1.21.4 release announcement

## If you don't have Wget installed, you can't use Wget to wget Wget, so
## use something else:
# curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.21.4.tar.lz
# ncftpget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.21.4.tar.lz
#
## or if you don't have ncftpget either and only have commandline 'ftp':
# cat << END | ftp -n ftp.gnu.org
# user anonymous
# pass me@foo.org
# cd /pub/gnu/wget
# binary
# get wget-1.21.4.tar.lz
# close
# quit
# END

# Get it
cd
test -f installed/wget-1.21.4.tar.lz && mv installed/wget-1.21.4.tar.lz .
test ! -f wget-1.21.4.tar.lz &&
wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.21.4.tar.lz

# The original base64 sha256 checksum from the release announcement:
# (when you don't have coreutils >= 9.2's cksum)
# NoNhml9Q7cvMsXIKeQBvo3v5uaJVqMW0gEi8PHqHS9k=
sha256sum -b wget-1.21.4.tar.lz | xxd -r -p | base64

# Verify tarball w/ sha256sum:
# (this comes from mine, verified above and with gnupg below)
echo "3683619a5f50edcbccb1720a79006fa37bf9b9a255a8c5b48048bc3c7a874b\
d9  wget-1.21.4.tar.lz" | sha256sum -c

# Verify tarball w/ gpg:
( gpg --list-keys E8C70AF9 > /dev/null 2>&1 || gpg --recv-keys E8C70AF9 ) &&
wget -nc http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.21.4.tar.lz.sig &&
  gpg --verify wget-1.21.4.tar.lz.sig && rm wget-1.21.4.tar.lz.sig

# Extract the source
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "wget-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xvf --lzip ~/wget-1.21.4.tar.lz
cd wget-1.21.4
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# If you do have GnuTLS and/or OpenSSL installed, but don't want to build
# in SSL support, which gives you the ability to get https URLs, pass
# --without-ssl to configure below.
#
# To use OpenSSL and not GnuTLS (the default), pass --with-ssl=openssl to
# configure below.
# On a 64-bit server of mine, with OpenSSL installed under the < 1.1.0
# default prefix of /usr/local/ssl, with libraries in ./lib64/ under there,
# configure did find everything without anything extra like LDCONFIG.
#
# If your GnuTLS or OpenSSL is installed in a system-wide (like /usr)
# location, configure should find it automatically.  If it can not, you
# can pass these to configure:
# --with-libgnutls-prefix
# --with-libssl-prefix
# The default source-installed location for OpenSSL < 1.1.x would be like this:
# --with-libssl-prefix=/usr/local/ssl

# If you do use IPv6, of course you'll want to leave off --disable-ipv6

# Configure the build
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --infodir=/usr/info \
--mandir=/usr/man --disable-ipv6 --disable-nls

# Build it
make

# Test the build
make check

# Become root to install it
su

# Back up your wgetrc, if you have one:
test -f /etc/wgetrc &&
( mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/backup
   cp -a /etc/wgetrc ~/backup/wgetrc-$(date +%Y%m%d) )

# Remove the Slackware package, if there is one
test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg wget

# There is a sample wgetrc in doc/sample.wgetrc
# To check for the differences between your existing one and the sample
# one, try this:
# diff -u /etc/wgetrc doc/sample.wgetrc

# Install the new wget with stripped binary
make install-strip

## If you changed from a /usr/local wget to a /usr wget, or have scripts
## that are hard-set to /usr/local/bin/wget, create a symlink:
# ln -s /usr/bin/wget /usr/local/bin/wget

# Make sure your non-root user can remove the source later
chown -R $(logname) .
chmod -R u+w .

# Become yourself again
exit

# Save the source for later
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/wget-*.tar.*
mv wget-1.21.4.tar.lz installed/

# If you ever need to uninstall Wget, run this:
su
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/backup
test -f /etc/wgetrc && mv -f /etc/wgetrc ~/backup/
test -f /usr/local/etc/wgetrc && mv -i /usr/local/etc/wgetrc ~/backup/
for pfx in /usr /usr/local;
do
  rm -f ${pfx}/bin/wget ${pfx}/info/wget.info* ${pfx}/man/man1/wget.1
  find ${pfx}/share/locale /usr/local/share/locale -type f -name "wget.mo" \
   -exec rm {} \; 2> /dev/null
done
exit
find ~/src -maxdepth 1 -name "wget-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
rm -f ~/installed/wget-*.tar.*