%general-entities; ]> The final system build does not install an FTP or HTTP client for downloading files. Some suggested clients include: Curl Inetutils LFTP Links Lynx NcFTP Client Wget BASH - A user can use net redirections (if not disabled when building bash in the final system) to download wget or another program. cat > download.sh << "EOF" #!/bin/bash WGET_VERSION='1.14' WGET_HOSTNAME='ftp.gnu.org' exec {HTTP_FD}<>/dev/tcp/${WGET_HOSTNAME}/80 echo -ne "GET /gnu/wget/wget-${WGET_VERSION}.tar.xz HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: "\ ${WGET_HOSTNAME}'\r\nUser-Agent: '\ 'bash/'${BASH_VERSION}'\r\n\r\n' >&${HTTP_FD} sed -e '1,/^.$/d' <&${HTTP_FD} >wget-${WGET_VERSION}.tar.xz EOF GAWK cat > gawkdl.sh << "EOF" #!/bin/bash gawk 'BEGIN { NetService = "/inet/tcp/0/mirror.anl.gov/80" print "GET /pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.14.tar.xz" |& NetService while ((NetService |& getline) > 0) print $0 close(NetService) }' > binary gawk '{q=p;p=$0}NR>1{print q}END{ORS = ""; print p}' binary > wget-1.14.tar.xz rm binary EOF PERL with HTTP::Tiny (Included with final system PERL install). cat > download.pl << "EOF" #!/usr/bin/perl use HTTP::Tiny; my $http = HTTP::Tiny->new; my $response; $response = $http->mirror('http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.14.tar.xz', 'wget-1.14.tar.xz'); die "Failed!\n" unless $response->{success}; print "Unchanged!\n" if $response->{status} eq '304'; EOF Or use this: perl -MHTTP::Tiny -E 'say HTTP::Tiny->new->get(shift)->{content}' "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.14.tar.xz" > binary perl -e 'local $/; $_ = <>; s/\n$//; print' binary > wget-1.14.tar.xz rm binary PERL with LWP: Run cpan and manually configure the client. Run install LWP while in the CPAN shell. Refer to for wgetpl.