I installed wget into my local directory because the system-wide wget was out-of-date. How do I use my updated wget instead of system-wide? I have a directory on a computer (used by my entire department) that has out-of-date wget software (wget-1.14). I installed a new version into my local directory, where I have write permissions (I'm not the administrator), using: curl -O tar xvf wget-1.21.tar.gz cd wget-1.21 ./configure --prefix=/home/my/directory --with-ssl=openssl make make install These commands seemed to work. But "`whereis wget`" returns the old software. Similarly "`wget -V`" returns "wget-1.14." How do I use the newer wget-1.21 that I installed in my local directory?

You can add in your login script (on the end) command like:


export PATH=/home/my/directory/bin:$PATH


Or you can use absolute path to `wget`


/home/my/directory/bin/wget