Issue downloading files using wget

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Hello, I was trying to download a few files using wget, but I am facing issues on my system (Fedora WSL).

Failed to parse URI 'ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/fastq/ERR460/002/ERR4605112/ERR4605112_1.fastq.gz'
Nothing to do - goodbye
Failed to parse URI 'ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/fastq/ERR460/002/ERR4605112/ERR4605112_2.fastq.gz'
Nothing to do - goodbye

It worked completely fine on my college pc running Ubuntu.

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Can you show the exact command you are running? (But you can redact your username and password, of course.)

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wget -nc ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/fastq/ERR460/002/ERR4605112/ERR4605112_1.fastq.gz
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This was provided by the website, so i was following it.

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Thanks. I think the difference here is that Fedora’s ‘wget’ is wget2 version 2.2.1, which as I understand it doesn’t support FTP (at least, not without going through an HTTP proxy).

On Fedora you could instead use curl. For example this command works for me:

curl -OJ ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/fastq/ERR460/002/ERR4605112/ERR4605112_1.fastq.gz

Earlier versions of wget did support direct FTP, so your college PC may be running one of those?

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Thanks , this worked. As per my knowledge college pc was running Ubuntu 24.04 .

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