Buggy wget again causing issues with Fantastico – Tells you installed, but fools you

Once upon a time, long back around 24 months back, there was an issue with wget and fantastico. Issue was that fantastico will get installed. Atleast it will tell you that it finished installation. But later on when you try to adjust the feature set, it will fool you saying it is not installed. We thought it got solved in 5.2. but it looks like re-appeared in RHEL/CentOS 5.3.

So the solution is to install it from source. Source is the best. RPMs and Debs took all the fun we had in slackware age of floppy based linux

cd
mkdir ssages
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz
yum remove wget
tar xfz wget-latest.tar.gz
cd wget-*
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
make test
make install
cd ../
rm -Rf wget-*

You will also want to put wget* on /etc/yum.conf exclude= line so the OS doesn’t automatically reinstall the buggy version.

Ref: http://www.netenberg.com/forum/index.php?topic=5430.0