How to update wget to 1.16 on WSL?

Question

I am currently trying to use Bazel on my WSL installation, but I am getting the error:

wget: unrecognized option '--show-progress' Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...

Try `wget --help' for more options.

I have searched around, and found that the --show-progress option was only added in wget=1.16, and I only have wget=1.15. I am not sure how I can update to 1.16 though.

sudo apt install wget=1.16 fails saying that

E: Version '1.16' for 'wget' was not found

and apt-cache policy wget doesn't mention anything about anything past 1.15:

wget:
  Installed: 1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.3
  Candidate: 1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.3
  Version table:
 *** 1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.15-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Does Ubuntu have support for wget 1.16? How can I install it? Thanks!

Solution

You can get the last version here : https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz

wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz
tar xf wget-latest.tar.gz
rm wget-latest.tar.gz
cd wget-*
./configure
#optional: make check
make
#optional: make installcheck
make install

Comments

[muru]

WSL Ubuntu is currently 16.04.And 16.04 has 1.17.1. Just upgrade to 16.04.

[ifconfig]

@muru Thanks for responding! I just noticed that, and am trying that now.