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Could not seed PRNG; consider using --random-file.

When using wget with https, if you get the following error:

Could not seed PRNG; consider using --random-file.
Disabling SSL due to encountered errors.

It means that the udev daemon may be in physical mode.   Create the /dev/random device manually:

mknod /dev/random c 1 8


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