Showing posts with label GNU wget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GNU wget. Show all posts

2010-01-12

FreeBSD - How to setup ports using wget to download

The default download program for ports is using fetch. fetch is fine but my personal preference is wget. wget uses 1 connection to download, unlike my previous post that mentioned "Download ports simultaneously with multiple connections".

But wget gives extra bell and whistle like date/time of the download, log to file, continue from a partially downloaded file, rate limit of the download & others.

The below is how to setup ports to use wget to download :