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use curl instead of wget

Open AndreiCherniaev opened this issue 4 weeks ago • 1 comments

Proposed Commit Message

wget Removed from Ubuntu Server 25.10 Default Install

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  • [x] Squash merge using "Proposed Commit Message"
  • [ ] Rebase and merge unique commits. Requires commit messages per-commit each referencing the pull request number (#<PR_NUM>)

AndreiCherniaev avatar Dec 09 '25 08:12 AndreiCherniaev

I'm curious which images streams you are familiar with where wget does not exist: Looking at desktop manifest it still has wget in the image, same with ubuntu server images and ubuntu minimal images because it's pulled in by other image dependencies like pciutils which exist in most images.

"Ubuntu developers have decided to remove wget from the default install of Ubuntu Server 25.10, in favour of wcurl, which offers similar functionality." - from link So I decide to help Canonical to drop wget totally.

AndreiCherniaev avatar Dec 11 '25 01:12 AndreiCherniaev