How to Install and Uninstall wget Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "wget" package

This is a short guide on how to install wget on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall wget on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: wget
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.20.3-1ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: standard
Section: web
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Noël Köthe
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 992
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libidn2-0 (>= 0.6), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.32), libpsl5 (>= 0.16.0), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: ca-certificates
Conflicts: wget-ssl
Filename: pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.20.3-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 348824
MD5sum: ae9eb859432505828dab97c80edcb5b5
SHA1: 45504b6e948d4f1a7e2ba0233bb57a67b392ceea
SHA256: 68144dde6d45e1a54fa983d6d10be7043e6695e259c8d2b12fd03ea5e475d56a
SHA512: 8f1f5dc68d03ceb28c62659fb0e4393cc6c25549b40a23d36384cf85141733bc77a61e76bfe29f9578930b44af569a6d811c2e017fc5cecb35057a2373774a42
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
Description-en: 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: 63a4a740bcd9e8e94bf661e4f1806e02
Task: standard