From 914796190828dc91cf9f51ffa553cf7ed29b8515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Combs Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 11:30:33 -0700 Subject: Add a warning about Chocolatey's Wget package. Its CA certificate configuration appears to be incomplete. Recommend Cygwin's instead. Change-Id: I0e7ddbfbb2a37f2872a820442e2d185f20ef551e Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/7948 Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs --- docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_tools.asciidoc | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'docbook/wsdg_src') diff --git a/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_tools.asciidoc b/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_tools.asciidoc index 72eeb34cf9..f3baa93580 100644 --- a/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_tools.asciidoc +++ b/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_tools.asciidoc @@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ However, the version string may vary. ==== Windows native: patch -The Windows native Git tools provide patch. A native Windows patch package can be obtained from +The Windows native Git tools provide patch. A native Windows patch package can be obtained from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/[]. The installation should be straightforward. @@ -1152,13 +1152,15 @@ installation should be straightforward. GNU wget is used to download files from the internet using the command line. GNU wget is available for most of the UNIX-like platforms and as the wget -package from the <> and also using Chocolatey: +package from the <> and also using Chocolatey. +At the time of writing the native Chocolatey wget package had incomplete +CA certificate support. As a result the Cygwin package is recommended: ---- -PS$> choco install Wget +PS$> choco install wget -source cygwin ---- -You will only need wget, if you want to use the Windows automated library +You will only need wget if you want to use the Windows automated library download, see <>for details. If GNU wget isn't already installed or available as a package for your platform -- cgit v1.2.1