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    • N
      NMaas
      last edited by

      Hi there,
      for an feature I really need wget on the pfsense.
      I tried to install it with pkg_add -r wget
      This Downloaded all files, but failed then on installing.
      With pkg_delete I can't remove it, because it ain't installed,
      with pkg_add I can't install because "its installed" (it is not, no wget on the system…).
      How to correctly get wget onto the system?
      ( Sorry, I never worked with FreeBSD before... )

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      • N
        NMaas
        last edited by

        I shall use search before asking solved problems! ^^''
        Found it: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,24590.msg127322.html#msg127322
        rehash solved the problem.
        So to install:

        pkg_add -r wget
        rehash

        Thanks!

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          The program "fetch" is on the system by default and it can do much of what wget does as well. For most people, fetch is enough so adding wget isn't necessary. (And curl is there, too, depending on what packages you have installed)

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