Wget command does not work

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wget command doesn’t work for me on fresh install, at least in qubes dvm. Terminal output:

wget
uwtwrapper uwt wrapper ERROR: file ‘/usr/bin/wget.anondist-orig’ does not exist.

Is the package that includes file ‘/usr/bin/wget’ installed?

Just a guess: Perhaps install the ‘wget’ package?
sudo apt update
sudo apt install wget

‘command-not-found’ is a tool that might be able to suggest the name of the missing package. But it is not installed either. The user could consider to install ‘command-not-found’ as per documentation

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What’s unclear about the error message?

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Sorry, I assumed wget was intended to work out of the box. Is this not installed by default because scurl is preferred?

As for the error message, I found it confusing because /usr/bin/wget did exist and points to a similarly named .anondist binary. So I assumed something was broken on a fresh install that shouldn’t be (since wget was there but “not working”). But it sounds like that is the intent? It’s just that was not clear (to me) from the error.

Thanks Patrick.

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As intended indeed.

Yes as per:

Note:

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