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GNU Wget (or just wget) is a command line-based program for downloading content from the Internet using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.

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How to stop wget command?

I accidentally mirrored a whole website using wget. Whenever I try to delete the downloaded file, it keeps reappearing & trying to download again. How do I stop this?
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Wget commmand not found

I tried installing wget. It says wget is up to date. But when I use wget it says command not found.
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404 not found error when trying to download Hadoop

I entered the command to download hadoop, but it tells me that there's no connection and 404 not found. HTTP request transmitted, waiting for response… 404 not found
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Unable to resolve host address 'dl.google.com'

I am using Ubuntu 20.04. I am unable to open the Firefox and Chrome browsers in the Ubuntu. I used wget command to install the browsers. However, wget command also did not work.
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How to delete a file, ls -al got: "-????????? ? ? ? ? ?"

I try to download a model file from civitai.com by wget , and got a filename '201259?type=Model'. wget https://civitai.com/api/download/models/201259?type=Model&format=SafeTensor&size=pruned&...
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Receiving an "unable to resolve host address" error when using wget [closed]

New to using Linux systems and I recently bought a book with incorporated labs to teach me to use Kali Linux through Virtualbox. However, when I attempt to use wget, I receive this error: Resolving ...
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GCC 7.4.0 compilation gets stuck at contribs/download_prerequisites

When running contribs/download_prerequisites the script gets stuck without any output. How can I resolve this?
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Permission denied error while trying to run wget for owncloud

I got a permission denied error running the command below: ubuntu@P1-AppServer:/var/www/html$ wget https://download.owncloud.com/server/stable/owncloud-complete-latest.tar.bz2 --2023-10-07 15:22:05-- ...
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Unable to find wget working directory

hello im trying to find wget working directory and when i use this command wget -P or Wget --directory-prefix and i get this as an answer: Wget: option requires an argument -- 'P' Usage: wget [...
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NVM not start downloading, fails download after sometimes

recently i have installed Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS x86_64 when i hit the command curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.5/install.sh | bash it does not start downloading, it just ...
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`wget -U` and `curl -A` both receives 403 forbidden response

I have tried both curl -A and wget -U and both receive 403 forbidden response. The agent I use is 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.27 Safari/537....
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Wget always downloading index.html?

I am using the following command: wget -r -p --page-requisites robots=off -U mozilla https://opig.stats.ox.ac.uk/webapps/sabdab-sabpred/sabdab/archive/all/ to download a file called all_structures.zip,...
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Warning: apt-key is deprecated, when installing Microsoft Edge

To install Microsoft Edge, the suggestion is to: wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - however, this is now deprecated. So the suggestion is to now use ...
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Ubuntu server 20.04 temporary failure in name resolution

I have installed ubuntu server 20.04 in VirtualBox and setup static ip address. now I am trying to install golang but shows this "Resolving go.dev(godev)...failed:temporary failure in name ...
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Wget very slow on Ubuntu Server 22.04

I have been using Ubuntu for about 2 years now, both Desktop and Ubuntu Server. Recently I had a little upgrade to my server (Tesla k80 and a new motherboard + CPU). Now I have run into the following ...
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Is there a method to download all files of a ppa?

Is there a method to download all files of a ppa from launchpad.net to the local drive?. (To make a backup of an abandoned project) I have tried it with: wget --recursive --no-parent https://launchpad....
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how do I fix youtube-dl: running it gives error message about incorrect syntax

I recently installed 22.04 completely from scratch. Just now I followed instructions to install youtube-dl, with wget (from github.com): sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/...
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using java in UBUNTU

I have been trying to use this code in UBUNTU : wget https://snpeff.blob.core.windows.net/versions/snpEff_latest_core.z unzip snpEff_latest_core.zip java -Xmx8g -jar snpEff.jar GRCh37.75 data_1.vcf &...
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wget using git credentials

How do I run wget or curl to download a single file from a Git repository which is already authenticated in Git? It seems that I need to pass a private key or a public key, but I am already ...
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winHQ on Ubuntu 22.04 issues: "304 Not Modified"

I need to install wineHQ on Ubuntu 22.04 and later on GrapeJuice. Here the lines of code I need for such installation. My problem is that, despite I have an almost pristine system, attending the video,...
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wget unable to resolve host address

wget http:www.google.be resolving http (http)...failed:Temporary failure in name resolution. wget: unable to resolve host address 'http' Question: What can be the issue/solution?
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Anydesk installation by bash script using wget

I'm trying to write a bash script for automating the installation of anydesk by wget with the help of th following code: echo -e "[ - ] Installing AnyDesk..." wget --max-redirect 1 --trust-...
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Connection times out for wget and npm and so on

I just installed a Ubuntu 22.04 on my computer. It has not worked very good so far. For some reason it is very slow with installing packages and commands like: wget http://google.com times out all the ...
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sudo wget returns OpenSSL error when trying to install Wine, meanwhile wget does not work due to permission denied

Screenshot of what happened (base) josaphat@josaphat-GS66-Stealth-10SGS:~$ sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key --2022-10-29 12:46:53-- https:...
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wget works without sudo, but when using with sudo returns an OpenSSL error

Screenshot of what happens: I've been trying to search for the error online, but none seems to work (base) sudo wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb [sudo] ...
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apt-key add with wget not working

I am trying to make an openVpn from How to Install OpenVPN on Ubuntu. I have 2 unbuntu servers which I connect to them with putty from windows. both servers are ubuntu-20.04-x86_64. after executing ...
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Static IPv6 setup with netplan

After running in to upgrade issues (not able to retrieve https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts) I found out that my static IPv6 setup caused this issue. However I'm stumped as how to fix it. ...
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Wget - Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority on Ubuntu 18

I have some tar.gz and zip files on my website. The website is hosted on aws (ubuntu 18). But Users can't download them using wget. It is giving this error while running :- wget https://example.com/...
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How to wget a zip file from box?

I am trying to use wget to download this publicly shared zip file from box https://imperialcollegelondon.app.box.com/s/71ki6qw8hjr3olyzmy05lye6le1bqyk5 It comes from this repository https://github.com/...
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Download, unzip and run a file from GitHub

I'm absolutely new to Linux and I would like to know how could I download through the command line a .zip file from GitHub releases e.g. https://github.com/username/repo/releases/download/ver/file.zip ...
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Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) docker container

when I want to install wget in docker container like this: exec kubectl exec -i -t -n reddwarf-storage reddwarf-postgresql-postgresql-0 -c reddwarf-postgresql -- sh -c "clear; (bash || ash || sh)&...
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"yes" command with finite number of "yes" answers

The yes command in linux is used to provide automatic "yes" answers to command prompts in linux: yes | wget https://example.com The issue is that, after execution of wget command the yes ...
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Error message during Google-Chrome install.: Malformed entry 1 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list ([option] not assignment) [duplicate]

Ubuntu 22.04 Hi, I found one other entry to this problem, but it doesn't appear to apply exactly. I'm no wizard, I'm not even able to clean the apprentice's boots, so all suggestions are a foreign ...
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Terminal cannot find commands, and downloads (wget) not working [duplicate]

I think I've damaged my Ubuntu installation, as now it is not recognising some terminal commands such as ufw/glances (which are already installed). The result is as follows. -bash: ufw: command not ...
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Cant able to use wget or curl in ubuntu 20.04.4

wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh --2022-07-06 09:24:21-- https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh Resolving repo.anaconda.com (...
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wget connection stuck - log file location? [closed]

A client of mine could not download anything via WGET from any website. He didn't get any error messages in the terminal. The connection simply remained in the "connecting" status. It did ...
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IPv6 DNS Problem with archive.ubuntu.com

Since a couple of weeks my mirror sync doesn't work as expected. I think that I identified the problem now. On my server the address archive.ubuntu.com resolves to a couple of IPv6 addresses and at ...
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How to roll back or uninstall a script ran from wget piped to bash?

I piped the following script to bash using wget with the intention of installing a theme for bash. wget -O - https://teejeetech.com/scripts/jammy/tweak_terminal | bash Now I cannot find a way to roll ...
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How to execute a command on a single file in a directory whilst looping though the directories recursively

I have the following structure / Cardio /../ High /../ High / download.txt /../ Low /../ Low / download.txt /../ Medium /../ Medium / download.txt / Warm / Warm / download.txt / Cool / Cool / download....
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wget a file stored on local host from within wsl2 ubuntu hosted on the same machine

Why I do this: I'm building a docker image from dockerfile which specifies several large files to be wget-ed from various locations, problem is, bad network. Now I've managed to get all the required ...
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how to fix download works on browser but on wget doesn't work?

so I wanted to download a video when I get the link and paste it into the browser it pops up a download notice and start downloading and when I try the same link on wget it dosn't work. Keep in mind i'...
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When downloading a file, why are modern browsers "unfair" when compared to wget? [closed]

Why do modern web-browsers behave unfair compared to a regular download using “wget”? I'm aware the question is fairly vague (I took it from a recent exam in my networking course), and I could not ...
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Own PEM file in initramfs

I am currently tinkering with the subiquity installer. I would like to load the iso from a local https address However the intitramfs keeps saying: wget: error getting response: connection reset by ...
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Installation of intermediate certificate not working for command line tools

TL;DR: No description on how to install a intermediate certificate works under Ubuntu 18.04. Any suggestions? Before marking this as a duplicate of How do I install a root certificate? or any other ...
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wget download file to inurl directory

Is there any way to download file to inurl directory. For example: Here the url is https://url.com/api/discovery/manifest I want the download structure be like root_folder - api -- discovery ---- ...
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How do I use wget to download from this website?

I am trying to download the dataset from this website https://motion-database.humanoids.kit.edu/list/motions/ but the website only allows me to download the folders one at a time by clicking on the ...
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Cannot verify Lets encrypt certificate Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS \n \l which is updated as of today. However, any time I try and wget something, this error pops up: # wget --verbose wops.cc URL transformed to HTTPS due to an HSTS ...
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wget to download files from list of urls and naming it from other list of names

I Have two text files - one of them contains urls of images that I want to download and other text file has the list of names corresponding to the urls of first files. Example content of text file 1: ...
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Can a virus be installed just by downloading a file?

Let´s assume that I programmatically download a malicious file, e.g. using wget, and try to import in e.g. R or Python as a text file. If it fails, I delete it using rm. There is any chance that my ...
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How to always get the latest version of Bleachbit with wget in bash?

To get latest version of BleachBit (for Ubuntu 20.04) we can use the following commands: wget -c https://download.bleachbit.org/bleachbit_4.4.0-0_all_ubuntu2004.deb -O bleachbit.deb dpkg -i bleachbit....
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