Can someone recommend a download manager?

Question

Can you provide the link for download manager for ubuntu?

Answer 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.

Answer 2

I'm using Axel and I think it's the best, but it's a CLI application.You can download form unlimited connections (up to you) and use all of your bandwidth.

To install axel use this command:

sudo apt-get install axel

And enter axel in terminal.You can see the help.I'm using it with these options:

axel -avn 50 address

It provides more information (-v) and uses alternative progress bar (-a) with 50 connections (-n 50).

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Downthemall extension for firefox is great too.

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

Answer 3

Do you mean a download manager for ubuntu 10.10?

If so, i prefer jDownloader. jDownloader on PPA

There you also can see how to install it.

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Answer 4

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

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

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

Answer 5

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.

It also has an indicator applet.

Install: sudo apt-get install steadyflow

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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.

Install:

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

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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.

Install:

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

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Aria

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

• Flashgot
• DownThemAll

Install: sudo apt-get install aria2

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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: http://linuxpoison.blogspot.in/2012/07/simple-download-manager-for-ubuntu.html

Uget: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/uget-download-manager-110-released-with.html

Jdownloader: http://www.linoob.com/2010/08/best-ubuntu-download-managers-reviewed/

Answer 6

You can try out flareGet ( a recently released download manager for linux). It is still in the alpha stage but works pretty good. It is multi-threaded and supports upto 16 segments per download for download acceleration. For browser integration and video download you can use flashgot addon.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/flareget/

Answer 7

You should try steadyflow It seems quite good. and it integrates with unity. Do you see the cloud icon with the blue arrow in the top bar?

If you want to integrate it with Firefox, try the Flashgot plugin. For Chrome(-ium), use Chromeflow.

Answer 8

I think that JDownloader can do everything that you want:

• Download online streaming video/audio: included by default

• Scheduling

• Grab links from the website: included by default

• Integration for chrome

Answer 9

Even if i have no problems downloading big files with any downloader (maybe there is something wrong with your filesystem or internet connection) i can recommend the DownThemAll - Addon for Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/downthemall/

But maybe you can explain what you mean with "...none of them work..."

Answer 10

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 feared, it is Quite easy to Download everything. AND integrates with uGet as a plugin so you can use uGet as a GUI for aria2. - http://uget.visuex.com/

Install it with the command

sudo apt-get install aria2

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also install Flashgot addon on firefox, set aria2 as Flashgot default downloader. So whenever, You click for download, flashgot automatically download it with aria2.

Answer 11

KGet is an awesome download manager. It's built for KDE, but supports HTTP[S], FTP, BitTorrent, MetaLink and combinations of all those things, as well as multi-threading, etc. It's cross-platform too.

DownThemAll! is great too. which is a firefox addon. https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/downthemall/

Usually I use it. It doesn't support BitTorrent, though, but I use Transmission for that.

Answer 12

I still prefer to use wget on files.

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

Answer 13

Which downloader I'd prefer?

I love jDownloader.

pros

It can download from many file sharing site.

It's built-in link grabber makes it better to get links.

It can be used to download from firefox with extension Flashgot

It has anti-capcha capability.

Fantastic resume capability.

Active team of developers

cons

Developed in java and JVM is resource intensive some times. ( same problem with Azureus or Vuze though it is my opinion )

Complex GUI.

I used IDM on windows long ago then I was missing downloader like IDM and found jDownloader. you will need some time to get used to jDownloader( even I was finding resume button when installed it first time. ;-]).

I have downloaded files greater than 2-3 GB with so many disconnection( due to network problem ) then also MD5 was exact !

Though it is my perspective. yours can be different.

Answer 14

You can use axel download manager. It is a command line tool but It support downloading files part by part, which is a popular method of accelerated download. The manual page of axel is saying this:

Axel is a program that downloads a file from a FTP or HTTP server through multiple connection, each connection downloads its own part of the file.

^{source: manual page for Axel}

You can also explicitly mention the number of part it should do to accelerate download. The options of axel is as follows:

Usage: axel [options] url1 [url2] [url...]

--max-speed=x       -s x    Specify maximum speed (bytes per second)
--num-connections=x -n x    Specify maximum number of connections
--output=f      -o f    Specify local output file
--search[=x]        -S [x]  Search for mirrors and download from x servers
--header=x      -H x    Add header string
--user-agent=x      -U x    Set user agent
--no-proxy      -N  Just don't use any proxy server
--quiet         -q  Leave stdout alone
--verbose       -v  More status information
--alternate     -a  Alternate progress indicator
--help          -h  This information
--version       -V  Version information

Try this download manager. You'll be satisfied with this.

I want a perfect alternative of Orbit Downloader or Internet Download Manager of Windows

This can be a perfect replacement of Internet Download Manager. I tried downloading same file using wget and axel. The speed in axel outperforms wget very easily.

What I recommend from the three: If you want me to select a download manager from your list in the question, I would select JDownloader for it's feature richness. Though It requires Java to be run.

Answer 15

I would recommend QuickDownloader.

QuickDownloader is a download manager that accelerates downloads by between 200-300%.

It provides a resume capability for resuming broken downloads. It supports both HTTP and FTP downloads.

Here are some key features of QuickDownloader:

• Support for multiple Downloads
• System Integrity Checkers which ensure that all system critical
• components exists and are in the correct location
• Memory use reduced to between 2-4mb
• Capability to carry out both downloads and Resume simultaneously
• Extensive Decoupling of Code to reduce dependencies between code which could cause problem in future
• Better Handling of errors
• Information on each Download that can be resumed
• Buffer Resizing for optimum use
• Proxy Configuration for systems behind firewalls
• Support for all types of Network connections such as Dial Up, Broadband T1 etc.
• Ability to download from both HTTP and FTP sites
• 100 % Resume support on all downloads even if the server doesn't support it.
• Uses Java JRE which runs on any machine such as Windows 2000, 98, Linux etc. ¹

To download Click Here

^{1Source:Linux Softpedia}

Answer 16

UGet - http://uget.visuex.com/ 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:

Answer 17

While there isn't software that matches the exact capabilities of IDM there are some that do quite a bit. I would suggest uGet uGet I have used it and it works great. It utilizes Aria2 which is a command line tool that helps to download HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink. Below are the instructions if you want uGet (stable)

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install uget aria2

Hope it helps you. For further reference take a look at this article Further reference

Regards, mojo706

Answer 18

Hello from the uGet project team,

I would suggest uGet - http://uget.visuex.com

uGet is one of the most powerful download managers for Linux while still being very lightweight. Our latest version was released 10 days ago. (Sep. 9th, 2012)

Steadyflow is a great program but is very limited in features as it was designed to be because of being for minimalists.

JDownloader is Java based so it is not going to be the best when it comes to resource management.

MultiGet had potential but its current version is an Alpha stage and has not been updated since 2010.

Answer 19

There are several download manager in Linux world but i preferred the following ones:

• JDownloader: Most powerful download manager in Linux (in my opinion). Using it you can start, stop or pause downloads, set bandwith limitations, auto-extract archives and much more.
• MultiGet: It is simple cross platform (Windows/Linux/BSDs/MacOS) download manager. It supports resuming downloads and SOCKS 4,4a,5 proxy, ftp proxy, http proxy. More information.
• uGet: It is simple and lightweight and has several good feature like, "Resume downloads", "Queue downloads", "Firefox integration", "Clipboard monitoring" and more. - http://uget.visuex.com

Answer 20

If you are using firefox you can use downloadthemall plugin also.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

Answer 21

GetJET Download Manager

This program is not highly stable yet. Install at your own risk.

Features :

• Download acceleration.
• Firefox integration with Ad-One (Can be manually integrated with Chromium)
• Download streaming online videos, with the ue of the add-one (Firefox only).
• Download history list management.
• Automated system shutdown.
• Supports pause/resume downloading, as long as the remote file name doesn't change.

Download DEB Installer

NOTE:

If you use Ubuntu 12.04 or lower, run the code below in Terminal, before installing GetJET:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemh/gambas3  
sudo apt-get update

(This PPA contains additional dependencies required by GetJET)

If you want to remove GetJET, run:

sudo apt-get remove getjet

To remove the PPA, run:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:nemh/gambas3

GetJET homepage

Answer 22

Try Flashget with Wine. I have been using it on Windows and Ubuntu (with wine) and its an excellent application. If you decide to give it a try, I would suggest installing version 1.9.6