I just got hired into a job with 2 windows boxes and a redhat box. The redhat box is a proxy server. When i try to do an apt-get it says 'apt-get' is not found. So i need to download the repository, but i don't know how to download something with terminal. I can download it on the windows box just fine but i am not educated enough to do it on terminal.

Help?

First, you can't apt-get in RedHat. That's only available in Debian and Debian based Distros such as Ubuntu and Mephis. You might be able to if you install Synaptic and apt4rpm. You should be able to. To download use this in terminal.

wget -c www.downloads.com/filetodownload

The -c lets you resume your download later if it fails by giving the same command in the same directory. Here is another useful option

wget -r www.linuxquestions.org

This should download the entire linuxquestions.org website. That may take a while. I have seen aget. It is supposed to be an accelerated downloader that runs in a terminal with less features than wget.

wget is the simplest and easiest. You can also try browsing to it with a text browser such as links (http://links.sourceforge.net/) or lynx (http://lynx.browser.org/) or by using curl (which is similar to wget).

Thanks guys, the wget worked awesome. Thanks again