You have to login as root, or user with administrative rights Check your present directory use the following command pwd Then change your directory use the following command cd /usr/ports/ftp/wget Now install the wget use the following command make install clean After installation, you can use the wget command as follows: wget http://iredmail.googlecode.com/files/iRedMail-0.7.1.tar.bz2 wget ftp://ftp.example.com/yourdir/downloadyourfilename

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