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Nikhil Sahu
Asked: 2015-06-29 08:22:55 +0800 CST

Download Manager for Ubuntu that can open multiple HTTP connections

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Is there a download manager that can open multiple connections to the specified URL and download part files only to join the files later and present it as one single file?

I know about wget, but as far as i know, it opens a single connection to download. (Though can resume a interrupted download)

Is there such a download manager or a command line tool available?

download-manager

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Yes, there is. Run the following commands to install:

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install aria2

    Use aria2 basically just like wget. I believe the default number of connections is 4 but you can change this by using the -x flag followed by the number of connections you would like to make. For example, to make 8 connections:

    aria2c -x 8 http://www.example.com/example.file

    click here for more info

    Also, you can use the DownThemAll extension for firefox.

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  2. In addition to aria2, there is uGet which has a GUI as well as command line options.

    Run the following commands to install uGet:

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

    It can also use aria2 as a backend engine if you want.

    http://uGetdm.com

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