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Asked: 2011-04-01 07:23:14 +0800 CST

What download managers are available for Ubuntu?

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What download managers are available for Ubuntu? Can you provide the link as well?

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  1. I would recommend the wget command line utility which is absolutely awesome!

    wget is a GNU free software package that is used for retrieving files over the web. If you have got it installed, then all you have to do is to get the download link and use wget to download it.

    In order to get the download link, right click on whichever download you want in the firefox download manager. There will be an option ‘copy download link’. Click on it.

    Then open a terminal and go to whichever folder you want the file downloaded to. Assuming it is in the Desktop, type the following command at the prompt:

    $ wget <paste your download link here>

    Now even if it gets stuck in the middle, you can resume from wherever it was interrupted by giving the option -c to wget. That is, the command will be like

    $ wget -c <paste your download link here>

    And there it continues beautifully.

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  2. Axel is great! There is no limit on the number of connections, and you can utilize your bandwidth.

    To install axel use this command:

    sudo apt-get install axel

    It's a CLI application. So open a terminal window and type in axel For more information and checking available options, you can look at the help page. I usually use these options:

    axel -avn 50 address

    It provides more information (-v), displays the alternative progress bar (-a) and downloads with 50 simultaneous connections (-n 50).

    Downthemall extension for firefox is also great.

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    [Install it from here](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/downthemall/ or search downthemall in the addon manager.)

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  3. Try using FatRat download/upload manager , though a QT based but supports a lot of Features and is continuously extended.

    Some of its features:

    • HTTP(S)/FTP downloads
    • FTP uploads
    • Support for SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies
    • RSS feed support + special functions for TV shows and podcasts
    • BitTorrent support (including torrent creating, DHT, UPnP, encryption etc.)
    • Torrent search on major torrent sites incl. The Pirate Bay, EZTV, BitTorrentMonster...
    • RapidShare.com FREE and premium downloads
    • RapidShare.com uploads
    • RapidShare.com link verification and folder extraction
    • RapidSafe link decoding
    • MD4/MD5/SHA1 hash computing
    • Remote control via Jabber (!)
    • Remote control via an AJAX* web interface
    • Subtitle search
    • RAR/ZIP file unpacker
    • Scheduler
    • Clipboard monitor

    You can even select the Download Protocol client, if supported as

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    On main Window , you can browse options like Details, Transfer speed Graphs ,Queue speed Graphs and Logs.

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    From settings window , you can setup FatRat for the following services

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    Other Useful Links :-

    For Browser Integration

    For Plugins and for Extensions

    For FatRat Documentation

    Official FatRat Page

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  4. There are plenty of them available.

    Steadyflow

    Steadyflow is a simple and easy to use download manager, written in GTK. It has a lot of good features without any unnecessary complexity.

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    It also has an indicator applet.

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    Install: sudo apt-get install steadyflow

    Uget

    uGet is a multi-platform GTK3 download manager that supports resuming downloads, comes with categories support, can download torrent and metalink files through aria2, a powerful command line download tool that's integrated into uGet.

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    Install: 

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install uget aria2

    Jdownloader

    JDownloader is a free and open source cross platform (Linux,Mac ..) download manager, written in Java, which allows the automatic download of files and split files from one-click. Additionally, many “link encryption” sites are supported – so you just paste the “encrypted” links and JD does the rest.

    enter image description here Install:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jd-team/jdownloader
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install jdownloader-installer

    Aria

    Aria is not a GUI download manager, but it can be used via several Firefox extensions. Two of them are:

    Install: sudo apt-get install aria2

    Gwget

    Gwget is a gnome frontend for the popular downloading application wget. gwget also has firefox integration with the help of the firefox extension FireGet. However, it is not updated since 2009.

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    More Information

    Steadyflow

    Uget

    Jdownloader

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  5. You can't download a file faster than what the speed of your connection allows. However as @llori pointed out "It is not about going faster than your local connection, but about overriding download bandwidth per stream from the server itself. That's why it is an 'accelerator.'" Thus it doesn't make your connection faster, but it lets you download faster from a server that doesn't allow you to do that.

    Gwget

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    Gwget is a download manager for the Gnome Desktop . The main features are: Resume: By default, gwget tries to continue any download.

    • Notification: Gwget tries to use the Gnome notification area support, if available. You can close the main window and gwget runs in the background.
    • Recursivity: Gwget detects when you put a html, php, asp or a web page dir in the url to download, and ask you to only download certain files (multimedia, only the index, and so on).
    • Drag & Drop: You can d&d a url to the main gwget window or the notification area icon to add a new download.
    • Firefox Extension: Fireget

    Sources: Wikipedia & GNOME.org

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  6. No one can beat Aria2, Best Downloader I have seen ever. It can resume your download after several months, even from Mediafire. The Only drawback is - its a command line tool. But don't be afraid, it is quite easy to use. It also integrates with uGet as a plugin so you can use uGet as a GUI for aria2.

    Install it with the command 

    sudo apt-get install aria2

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    You can also install Flashgot addon on Firefox, and set aria2 as Flashgot default downloader. That way, whenever you click to download something, flashgot will automatically download it with aria2.

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  7. Do you mean a download manager for ubuntu 10.10?

    If so, i prefer jDownloader. jDownloader on PPA

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    There you also can see how to install it.

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  8. Flareget is probably the best download manager available for Linux (quoting from softpedia.com) It is highly stable and has almost all the features you can think of. It is multi-threaded and supports upto 16 segments per download for download acceleration. It has inbuilt browser integration and YouTube video download support for all the browsers. It is also actively maintained and a pro version is also available.

    This is not free software. Limitation of free version: only 2 segments per download of files larger than 25 MB. (as of v. 3.2.42 in 2014)

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  9. I still prefer to use wget on files.

    Or you can try plowshare which is a command-line tool:

    plowshare

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  10. UGet

    The program uGet is available in the repositories and is an excellent download manager with many useful options. As you can see in the screenshot below, it can pause a large download and resume it successfully (if the server supports resuming). I have used it with great success to download large and small files alike.

    You can also queue and classify downloads and allow it to monitor the clipboard for potential downloads. Bandwidth can be controlled per download or on a global scale and, if necessary, you can specify a proxy to use. When flashgot is installed in firefox, uGet can be chosen as the default download manager for that browser.

    uGet in action with a large file partially downloaded and paused: :

    To boost speed by using multi-thread downloads, enable area2 plugin:

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