How to install wget and curl on pfsense shell?

[torontob]

Hi everyone,

I see that shell is practically stripped of a lot of useful tools. To start with I need wget and curl on shell. How can I install those two?

apt-get?

thanks

[ericab]

pkg_add -r curl

pkg_add -r wget

[torontob]

Thank you very much. I shall try that.

The reason why I want this is a safe reboot method to be able to curl or wget a file which contains instructions like "reboot" or do some other chores. Based on that, after wget grabs the file from my server how can I safely reboot pfSense from shell? would a simple "reboot" in shell be good enough? I am using Compact Flash card so I don't want any data loss to occur.

Thanks again,

[jimp]

Or just use "fetch" instead of wget/curl.

[torontob]

Thanks. And safe reboot is?