Ticket #79 (new Defect)

Opened 2 months ago

Allow download even if wget isn't installed

Reported by: isak Assigned to: isak
Priority: Low Milestone: 1.3
Component: main Version: 1.2.4
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

It seems some distributions aren't shipping wget by default which means autopackage won't work.

Suggested route for solving this:

  • Fall back to use curl which may be available even if wget isn't
  • Ship wget (or curl) in the stub (the binary alone is ~200k)
  • Write our own small wget replica using e.g. libcurl and ship it
  • Ignore this problem and blame the distros ;-)

Attachments

autopackage-curl.c (0.8 kB) - added by Jan-Nik on 05/17/08 18:33:30.
Small program using libcurl, binary is 5.7 K

Change History

05/17/08 18:33:30 changed by Jan-Nik

  • attachment autopackage-curl.c added.

Small program using libcurl, binary is 5.7 K