Subject: bug#43530: wget: command not found

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:40:12 -0400

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 07:06:12AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> This is not a bug. I think it's more a feature request.
> 
>     $ patchelf.sh: line 86: wget: command not found
> 
> Lack of wget is a bit unusual for a Linux distro. Usually an image has
> either wget or curl installed. On Linux wget is usually installed; and
> on OS X curl is usually installed.
> 
> Guix might consider adding Wget to its standard image.

Perhaps!

Guix does include the `guix download` command, which serves as a simple
HTTP downloader.