How To Install wget2 on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install wget2 in Fedora 36. wget2 is An advanced file and recursive website downloader

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wget2 on Fedora 36.

What is `wget2`

GNU Wget2 is the successor of GNU Wget, a file and recursive website downloader. Designed and written from scratch it wraps around libwget, that provides the basic functions needed by a web client. Wget2 works multi-threaded and uses many features to allow fast operation. In many cases Wget2 downloads much faster than Wget1.x due to HTTP2, HTTP compression, parallel connections and use of If-Modified-Since HTTP header.

We can use yum or dnf to install wget2 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wget2.

Install wget2 on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install wget2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wget2

Install wget2 on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install wget2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wget2

How To Uninstall wget2 on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the wget2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wget2

wget2 Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/wget2
/usr/bin/wget2_noinstall
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/080d86f241f29051c8b0f75a904a865fbf4943
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/080d86f241f29051c8b0f75a904a865fbf4943.1
/usr/share/doc/wget2
/usr/share/doc/wget2/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wget2
/usr/share/licenses/wget2/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/wget2/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/wget2.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/wget2.1.gz

References

wget2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wget2 on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).