How to Install and Uninstall wget Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "wget" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install wget on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                wget
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "wget" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall wget on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                wget
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wget package on Kali Linux

Package: wget
Source: wget (1.21.4-1)
Version: 1.21.4-1+b1
Installed-Size: 3681
Maintainer: Noël Köthe
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgnutls30 (>= 3.8.1), libidn2-0 (>= 0.6), libnettle8, libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22), libpsl5 (>= 0.16.0), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: ca-certificates
Conflicts: wget-ssl
Size: 958880
SHA256: 2b0d58bfb2bce2236481bd9af3291c4555553e9d15a90eaa755354a6be2e79b9
SHA1: 19583d2eb523f9b099843454ac34be95b6219001
MD5sum: 6882804037dd6f738341601dc8f53b4f
Description: retrieves files from the web
Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the web
using HTTP(S) and FTP, the two most widely used internet
protocols. It works non-interactively, so it will work in
the background, after having logged off. The program supports
recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as FTP
sites -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and
home pages or to travel the web like a WWW robot.
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Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable connections
by continuing to retrieve a document until the document is fully
downloaded. Re-getting files from where it left off works on
servers (both HTTP and FTP) that support it. Both HTTP and FTP
retrievals can be time stamped, so Wget can see if the remote
file has changed since the last retrieval and automatically
retrieve the new version if it has.
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Wget supports proxy servers; this can lighten the network load,
speed up retrieval, and provide access behind firewalls.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, network::client,
protocol::ftp, protocol::http, protocol::ssl, role::program,
suite::gnu, use::downloading, works-with::file
Section: web
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.21.4-1+b1_amd64.deb