Can I compile wget on linux?

Its features include recursive download, conversion of links for offline viewing of local HTML, support for proxies, and much more. It appeared in 1996, coinciding with the boom of popularity of the web, causing its wide use among Unix users and distribution with all major Linux distributions. Written in portable C, Wget can be easily installed on any Unix-like system and has been ported to diverse environments, including Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows , and OpenVMS .