Jan 2017

By default, wget is not installed on the MFEL. Even updating repositories (using EPEL) will not enable wget installation. To overcome this you can use curl as a drop in replacement for wget.

  Where you would have used wget like so:
  
  wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

  You can use:
  
  curl -O https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

The -O is important, this tells curl to output to file, by default curl will output to the console (screen) and you will just see a mess.