I recently bought a MacBookPro. I always had fascination for Mac and It was one of my dream as well. I am fond of computers.... No surprise, I guess, since my brother is a software professional and I am a lazy guy.
I did ground work for about 6 months before I ordered a MacBookPro. Previously I was linux user and was using Kubuntu, Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian....(beleive me, I use all these in my IBM ThinkPad R51, sometimes I use MINIX 3 as well). It was not so convincing for me, after few days of initial interaction with my new MBP, about my decision....:(. After some days, I started exploring it in full swing. I tried instlaling Debian Lenny in it as dual boot and wiping the whole Leopard out. Things went fine, but I wanted to use Xcode, which I thought is one of the good API.
The first and the foremost thing about Mac is, you would loose your freedom (especially if you move from linux). Mac will offer you something and you have to make yourself used to it and change yourself in such a way that what Mac offers is doing fine for you. Sorry to Jobs!!
Enough!!!
Leopard doesn't come with wget builtin. I installed wget in my MBP running Leopard 10.5.6 from it's source. You can get the pre-compiled binaries from here http://www.statusq.org/archives/2008/07/30/1954.
> Download wget source from the following link, http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget(latest at the time of my installation is 1.11.4)
I would suggest one to move the downloaded package to /usr/local/. Moving the package would require you to have sudo privilage...
> sudo mv
once you move it to your desired directory, untar it.
> Untar and unzip
sudo tar -xvf
> cd
>sudo ./configure
You need to have Xcode tools installed in your system for configuration and installation. You can get a list of arguments for ./configure by typing "-help" as the argument for ./configure.
>sudo make
>sudo make install
Ypu can achieve the whole installation in just a single line complex command,
> sudo ./configure && make && make install
Enjoy wget!!!!!
In principle, configuration making and make install should go without any major problem.
Write me, if you encounter any error.
If you need binaries(hopefuly, you won't be as lazy as me!!), leave me your mail id!
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