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If you have Fedora Core 5/6 or CentOS 5 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on your server and are experiencing troubles with respect to upgrades (forced or otherwise) of Click Be! or Fantastico or Universina, please check the wget version that you have on your server.

If it is wget-1.10.2-3.3.fc5 or wget-1.10.2-8.fc6.1, or any version that yum installs on those OSes (they will typically end with .fc5 or .fc6 or .el5) we suggest that you replace it immediately with an older and/or stabler version. This version does not honor the "-P" switch.

An alternate version that we know works is wget-1.10.2-3.2.1 (though more recent versions should also work).

You can use the following commands for this purpose.

Option1

For 32-bit:
Code:
rpm -qa wget ;
wget ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm
chattr -ia /usr/bin/wget
rpm -e wget ;
rpm -ivh --force wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm ;
rpm -qa wget ;
You will also want to put wget on /etc/yum.conf's "exclude=" line (near the start of the file) so the OS doesn't automatically reinstall the buggy version.
You are done. Go into WHM's Fantastico admin area to finish the installation process.

Option 2
Replace the system default wget with the copy from the source

For 64-bit:

Follow the advanced directions below.

Code:
cd
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz
tar xfz wget-latest.tar.gz
yum remove wget
When prompted, enter Y to remove the system wget

Code:
nano -w /etc/yum.conf
Add wget to the end of the exclude= line near the top of this file and save changes.

Code:
cd wget-*
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make test
make install
cd ../
rm -Rf wget-*
If you follow these directions to replace your system wget, you can leave the wget path in Fantastico's admin area set to /usr/bin/wget when you do the install.

Note: You must execute the commands shown above as root.

Fedora Core 7 and later do not ship with a buggy version of wget. We assume this means that RHEL/CentOS 6 won't either, but until those OSes are available this is a good workaround.

Syukran wa jazakumullah khair.

Baitul Bytes Network.

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