====== Download using wget ======

wget is a text based download manager, run from the terminal. Following is a guide on how to use it.

==== Install GNU wget ====

wget is included in Tinycore and Microcore base. For a version which features more advanced options and supports ssl you may install the GNU wget extension.

==== Copy and Paste from Text Editor ====

The easiest way to use wget, is to copy and paste the url to the a text editor, then copy and paste the wget commands from the text editor to the terminal.

See [[mouse|Copy and Paste with the Mouse]].

==== Create a Directory for Downloads ====

Create a directory to save the files you download.

Let's create a new directory in /home/tc, called dl.

In the following examples, files will be downloaded to /home/tc/dl.

==== Start a Download ====

To download tinycore_3.6.iso, open the terminal and paste

<code>cd /home/tc/dl
wget http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/tinycore_3.6.iso</code>

==== Stop or Pause a Download ====

To stop or pause a download, press ctrl+c.

==== Resume a Download ====

To resume a download include, -c following wget. For example to resume downloading tinycore_3.6.iso, use

<code>cd /home/tc/dl
wget -c http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/tinycore_3.6.iso</code>

==== Retry ====

If downloading is stopped, wget will try again a total of 20 times. After that it will stop. If you want to change the number of times it tries again, insert -t followed by the number of times you want it to try.

For example if you were downloading tinycore_3.6.iso, and wanted it to try again 80 times, you could use

<code>cd /home/tc/dl
wget -c -t 80 http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/tinycore_3.6.iso</code>

==== Download More than One File ====

To download more than one file, you can put more than one url after each other.

For example, if you wanted to download tinycore_3.6.iso, install-tools.gz and network-tools.gz, you could use

<code>cd /home/tc/dl
wget -c -t 80 http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/tinycore_3.6.iso \
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/3.x/starterpacks/install-tools.gz \
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/3.x/starterpacks/network-tools.gz</code>

==== Download a List of Files from the Same Directory ====

You can download a list of files from the same directory.

Let's say you want to download Xfe, all .dep files and all dependencies, and .mdt.txt files.

Using the .dep files, make a list. Like this

<code>xfe.tcz
xfe.tcz.dep
xfe.tcz.md5.txt
fox.tcz
fox.tcz.dep
fox.tcz.md5.txt
Xorg-7.5-lib.tcz
Xorg-7.5-lib.tcz.md5.txt
libxft.tcz
libxft.tcz.dep
libxft.tcz.md5.txt
fontconfig.tcz
fontconfig.tcz.dep
fontconfig.tcz.md5.txt
expat2.tcz
expat2.tcz.md5.txt</code>

Save this file in the same directory as you will be downloading to, in this example, it is /home/tc/dl. Let's say we name it xfe-files.txt. Then use

<code>cd /home/tc/dl
for I in `cat xfe-files.txt`; do wget http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/3.x/tcz/"$I"; done</code>

==== Learn More ====

This has explained the basics of how to use wget, and may be used to download files.

You can actually do much more with wget. If you want, you can look for other examples on the Internet, and learn more about wget.