Upgrading wget for Linux Servers

January 6th, 2009 by keith Leave a reply »

For 32-bit Linux Servers:

cd /root
rpm -qa wget
wget ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm
chattr -ia /usr/bin/wget
rpm -e wget
rpm -ivh –force wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm
rpm -qa wget

For 64-bit Linux Servers:

cd /root
rpm -qa wget
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/x86_64/os/Fedora/wget-1.10.2-15.fc7.x86_64.rpm
chattr -ia /usr/bin/wget
rpm -e wget
rpm -ivh –force wget-1.10.2-15.fc7.x86_64.rpm
rpm -qa wget

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