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--- wiki:use_curl_as_wget_replacement [2017/01/12 19:51] – walkeradmin
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-By default, <color red>wget</color> is not installed on the MFEL. Even updating repositories (using EPEL) will not enable <color red>wget</color> installation. To overcome this you can use <color purple>curl</color> as a drop in replacement for <color red>wget</color>.
+By default, <color red>wget</color> is not installed on the MFEL. Even updating repositories (using EPEL) will not enable <color red>wget</color> installation. To overcome this you can use <color darkorange>curl</color> as a drop in replacement for <color red>wget</color>.
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+    Where you would have used wget like so:
+    wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
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+    You can use:
+    curl -O https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
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+The <color darkorange>-O</color> is important, this tells <color darkorange>curl</color> to output to file, by default <color darkorange>curl</color> will output to the console (screen) and you will just see a mess.
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