Ah, spoke too fast:

Philippe@DELLGFX /d/DevSmalltalk/workspacePharo20
$ wget -O- get.pharo.org/vm | bash
--2013-05-06 13:41:06--� http://get.pharo.org/vm
Resolving get.pharo.org... 108.162.196.47, 108.162.197.47
Connecting to get.pharo.org|108.162.196.47|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `STDOUT'

��� [� <=>��������������������������������� ] 5,275������ 22.3K/s�� in 0.2s

2013-05-06 13:41:08 (22.3 KB/s) - written to stdout [5275]

Downloading the latest pharoVM:
������� http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo/win/pharo-win-stable.zip
bash: line 75: unzip: command not found

One needs unzip as well...

mingw-get install msys-unzip did the trick.

An annoying thing is that on a failed install, the pharo-vm folder isn't trashed without further ado but we get:
...
2013-05-06 13:44:20 (1.20 MB/s) - written to stdout [5275]

Downloading the latest pharoVM:
������� http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo/win/pharo-win-stable.zip
mkdir: cannot create directory `pharo-vm': File exists

Philippe@DELLGFX /d/DevSmalltalk/workspacePharo20
$ ls
pharo-vm


Philippe@DELLGFX /d/DevSmalltalk/workspacePharo20
$ rm -rf pharo-vm


Then it is all right (but with a mention of latest in the prompts, and then downloading stable).

Philippe@DELLGFX /d/DevSmalltalk/workspacePharo20
$ wget -O- get.pharo.org/vm | bash
--2013-05-06 13:45:52--� http://get.pharo.org/vm
Resolving get.pharo.org... 108.162.197.47, 108.162.196.47
Connecting to get.pharo.org|108.162.197.47|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `STDOUT'

��� [ <=>���������������������������������� ] 5,275������ --.-K/s�� in 0.1s

2013-05-06 13:45:53 (49.2 KB/s) - written to stdout [5275]

Downloading the latest pharoVM:
������� http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo/win/pharo-win-stable.zip
pharo-vm/Pharo.exe
Downloading PharoV10.sources:
������� http://files.pharo.org/image//PharoV10.sources.zip
Downloading PharoV20.sources:
������� http://files.pharo.org/image//PharoV20.sources.zip
Creating starter scripts pharo and pharo-ui


Regards,

Phil



2013/5/6 Camillo Bruni <camillobruni@gmail.com>

On 2013-05-06, at 13:14, "phil@highoctane.be" <phil@highoctane.be> wrote:

> There is no wget nor curl in the base MinGW distribution.
>
> Philippe@DELLGFX ~
> $ which wget
> which: wget: unknown command
>
> Philippe@DELLGFX ~
> $ which curl
> which: curl: unknown command
>
>
> You either compiled, downloaded, or had it from somewhere else on the box.

yes mingw sucks a bit in that matter. to install wget run the following magic:

mingw-get install msys-wget