Hi friends, In this post I am going to explain about how to install or upgrade WGET in ubuntu or centos. Recently new vulnerability in wget (CVE-2014-4877), we can check in http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-4877 for complete information about this vulnerability.
Install or Upgrade wget in Ubuntu / CentOS by Anil Kumar Panigrahi
Follow the below steps to install wget in your server.
Step 1:
Go to home directory
Step 2:
CD
Step 3: Get the latest source code of wget from FTP repository
curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.16.tar.gz
Step 4: Extract the file and move into it
tar -xzf wget-1.16.tar.gz
Step 5:
cd wget-1.16
Step 6: Configure and install wget
./configure
Step 7: You may get the error in ssl in step 6. then use below command
./configure --with-ssl=openssl
Step 8: You may get the error in without ssl in step 6. then use below command
./configure --without-ssl
Step 9:
make && make install
wget will be installed in your server
If you already installed wget then follow the below steps to upgrade wget in your server.
Step 1:
Go to home directory
Step 2:
CD
Step 3: Get the latest source code of wget from FTP repository
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.16.tar.gz
Step 4: Extract the file and move into it
tar -xzf wget-1.16.tar.gz
Step 5:
cd wget-1.16
Step 6: Configure and install wget
./configure
Step 7: You may get the error in ssl in step 6. then use below command
./configure --with-ssl=openssl
Step 8: You may get the error in without ssl in step 6. then use below command
./configure --without-ssl
Step 9:
make && make install
wget will be upgraded in your server
Now we need to logout and login to server and check wget version by below command
wget -V
Thanks! please update the post, the newer version of wget is 1.17
I would comment the
./configure –without-ssl
step is not necessary, in fact, in 1.17 version actually there is a bug in master that don’t keep make if you put this line, works in my case with ./configure –with-ssl=openssl
I first copy paste all lines without much seeing 😛 and it doesn’t work, step 7 and 8 are sub-steps in fact of 5, maybe would more clear if you put it as sub-steps or as an clarification.
Thanks a lot for the post!
bro its giving error