In this blog post, we will show you how to install Wget on Ubuntu 26.04 OS. Wget is a command-line utility for downloading files from the Internet. It supports various protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and FTPS. Wget offers a variety of features such as non-interactive downloads, resumable downloads, recursive retrieval, background operations, system integration, etc. In this post, besides the installaiton we will show you some real-life wget commands with examples. Installing wget can be done in both ways: from the official repository OR builded from source.
The installation process of wget is straightforward, which may take different lengths depending on how we are using it. Let’s get Wget installed!