Downloading a file is taking a file stored on a remote machine or attached device and transferring it to your computer to be stored.
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How do I download a YouTube video?
For a school project I need to download three youtube videos and save them to a CD. I am running Ubuntu 10.10; can anybody provide instructions on how to do this? I'm fairly new to Ubuntu so the more ...
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How do I download and install Handbrake?
I'm new at Ubuntu so I don't know very well how to use the terminal in order to download and install programs that aren't in the software center. I've tried without success downloading and installing ...
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How can you monitor internet download usage?
Some broadband providers impose a monthly download limit, charging extra if you go over. It is also quite easy to exceed some of the lower limits just by installing/updating packages and 'normal' ...
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How to download Ubuntu over an unreliable connection
I am trying to download the 64-bit Ubuntu 12.10 ISO over an extremely unreliable connection. By unreliable, I mean that every time I finish downloading the ISO and compare the MD5 hashes, I end up ...
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How can I check the integrity of a downloaded Ubuntu CD?
I've just downloaded a CD image of Ubuntu. I know the installer has a check CD option, but how can I check that the image is good before burning it to CD?
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Where can I get Adobe Acrobat 64?
Does anybody know where can I get Adobe Acrobat for 64 bit Ubuntu?
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Firefox: open downloaded files with system default application
When I download a file with firefox, it always asks me with what program I want to open it with, even when that type of file is recognized by the system, and I can double click on it in Nautilus and ...
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Can you recommend a good modern GUI download manager (wget wrapper?)
"Downloader for X" looks, heh, not fitting well into Ubuntu theme and not very natural/convenient. At the same time I don't know of any good alternative. Maybe you know?
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How do I use apt-get to only download packages?
I have apt-get 0.7.23.1 on host machine. I do not have root, thus not able to update it, or install other packages.
I want to download .deb packages with it, but neither
apt-get -d bash (Invalid ...
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How can I force apt to optimize the dependency tree for minimal download size?
Some background information:
As you may know, in a Debian package, there may be alternative dependencies, written in the CONTROL file as Depends: apache2|something-else, for example. How does apt ...
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How can I download the videos from YouTube? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I download Youtube videos?
Downloading a youtube video
I want to download some educational videos from YouTube or any other web site. I am using Ubuntu 12.04. ...
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Is there some application to download files from popular file hosting websites?
I was wondering if there are some applications for downloading files from some popular hosting websites, automating the procedure of waiting and fetching links and downloading files, once we give the ...
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How can I resume a download started in Chromium?
I was in the middle of a large download in Chromium and the power supply to my computer failed (well I tripped over my power cord ...). I see the entry in chrome://downloads/ which says the download ...
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How to verify that the ISO I downloaded is bootable before I burn it?
How can I check to make sure that the iso I downloaded is bootable, before I burn it?
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Where to find the md5sums of Ubuntu ISO images?
I just downloaded the ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso, and am having a hard time burning it, so I'd like to check that the file is intact, but I cannot find the md5sum of the file.
Is there a URL or ...
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Where can I download Ubuntu?
Ubuntu 12.04 has been released. I still can't find it on ubuntu.com. Where is it meant to be downloaded, or is the only way to install it use update-manager to upgrade an existing installation?
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Can Wubi use the ISO I already have?
The Windows Installer for Ubuntu desktop instructions say that an ISO image for Ubuntu is downloaded during the installation process.
But what if I already have an ISO image for Ubuntu. Can I make ...
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how to resume download in wget which is integrated with firefox via flashgot
I use wget as a downloader. It is an excellent, outstanding application. I integrated it with Firefox using Flashgot.
How can I resume a download which was stopped by a CTRL+C key press or a shutdown ...
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Download a flash video (not from a popular video community)
There are a lot of tools to download videos from Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, etc. but I'd be interested in a more generic way to download flash videos, for example the ones here: ...
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Which usenet client would you recommend for binary downloads?
I am trying to replace Windows by Ubuntu, because Linux simply rocks. :-) So I am on the quest finding appropriate alternative software for ubuntu, that I used on Windows (or sometimes Mac) so far.
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Is there an official torrent for 12.10?
I like using torrents for many reasons: faster downloads, and I want to be able to give back, reducing load on Canonical's servers.
Is there an official torrent for Ubuntu 12.10?
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Analytics on PPA package downloads?
Is there some way to get download metrics on PPA packages? It would be nice to know how many users are using my application from my PPA and what distributions they are using. If not, any idea of the ...
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Web spider for Ubuntu
I'm looking for a web spider for Ubuntu like this one http://www.calluna-software.com/Webripper . You can download a whole site like you can with
wget -r -m example.com
but the feature I'm looking ...
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Any recommendations for a command-line download manager?
Any command-line download accelerator/manager recommendations for Ubuntu 11.04? I tried some programs like
Axel
wget/curl
I wanted to know if there are any command-line download managers which ...
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How to download a full multi-paged news article?
When I visit a site like the New York Times, I sometimes like to save the page for offline viewing. But many of the articles are linked in a series, like page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Is there a way to save ...
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Which download manager is capable of 'throttle' and 'pause & resume' a running instance of download from a script
When downloading big files it necessary to pause the download many times. A big file can be downloaded by using wget. First start download, then kill wget, then resume download by wget -c.
I want to ...
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How to report a bug in content (not interface) on Ubuntu.com?
I want to report a bug in the content on the Ubuntu website. I don't know how to properly do this because:
This is not a bug in the web server, or in the way a page is coded. It is a content ...
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Download accelerators for Ubuntu
What are the Download accelerators available for Ubuntu?
I like prozilla, but couldn't find a way to install it using apt or software center.
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How to download an MP3 track from a YouTube video [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to download a youtube video via terminal
There are several Q&A threads that explain how to download youtube videos using the terminal.
However, I would also ...
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Are bad download speeds considered normal after a release of a new Ubuntu version?
Installing new packages on my recently installed Ubuntu machine is slow. Fetching apt headers even took me more than three minutes because they are downloaded at ~20kB/s – in my case from ...
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Why isn't the Iceland mirror working?
I have already tried
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
but then it cant connect to [to is.archive.ubuntu.com][1]
and when i try to use update manager this comes
W:Failed to ...
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Where is the PowerPC version of 11.04?
Anyone know where the powerpc iso for natty is? I found the one for oneiric -- http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ but there is not one for natty in http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/
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Why does Transmission BitTorrent client say “could not connect to tracker”?
I recently cannot download anything via transmission and the download process remains idle("downloading from 0 of 0 connected peers").
Going through properties> trackers, I see "could not connect to ...
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Annoying message is showing after installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer package
After fresh install 12.04 I && updating apt and system restart, I always get this annoying message after reboot :
Failure to download extra data files
The following packages requested ...
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Good Download Manager for Ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can someone recommend a download manager?
Can you recommand any download manager for Ubuntu?
Features I'm looking for:
Works in Unity env.
Can download from ...
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Download folder, not a single file
There was one another question that was the same as mine but the answers were from 2010, so my question is: How can I download a folder as a whole and not a single file?
I want to download my music ...
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How to download streaming video from a flash player (arte)?
there are a couple of concerts that I would very much like to view from Arte (I think it's a french TV channel?) but my connection is not good enough to stream the video. How can I download the file ...
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How to download a whole FTP site using command line?
I need to download an FTP site (a web site source code actually) containing a very high quantity of relatively small files (downloading it with FileZilla took more than a day, but I believe it could ...
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How do I download iTunes podcasts with hpodder or other software?
Well, I want to download some lectures from Itunes.apple.com, and I've found a program called hpodder but I really haven't understood how to use it.
Does anyone here know how to ? Or does anyone know ...
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How to download 12.04 with resume option?
I would like to download latest ubuntu 12.04 LTS. But, I have a lousy connectivity. Is there torrent-like download available which I can pause and resume?
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Where should I store 3rd party jar (Java archive) files?
What would be the best place to save jar files of libraries I want to use in a project, that are not in any repositories, and how should I set permissions?
Should I put them in /usr/share/java, or is ...
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Is the direct download of 11.10 exactly the same as the torrent?
Is the default download of ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso identical to the torrent ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent?
I'm asking because i'm finding the direct download 25% faster, but would be ...
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Is it possible to tell Chromium to always “keep” PDFs?
I download a lot of PDFs in Chromium and always get a warning telling me that "files of this type can harm [my] computer", which forces me to manually confirm every download. I've enabled the "always ...
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uGet and Chrome/Chromium download integration
How can I integrate uGet and Chromium so that any downloads that would usually happen within Chromium will occur in uGet instead?
Please provide a link to any extensions required.
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Is there a HTTPS server for official Ubuntu releases?
Is there an https download available of ubuntu ISOs?
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Can't update to Ubuntu 12.04 on 11.10
I'm having problems on updating Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04, I've tried to update all possible ways.
I'v downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 from cd...but when booting the upgrade option wont appear...just: Install ...
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How can I make Chromium open apt links with xdg-open?
Hello I installed this extension
because I want to open apt links clicked in Chromium with xdg-open.
I have looked at this help but haven't been successful. How can I acheive this?
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Where can I download Ubuntu 13.04 Beta release? [duplicate]
I've heard that the Ubuntu 13.04 Beta release is out. If that's correct, where can I download it? When I look for it, all I find is the daily build, which is different from the Beta release, right? ...
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Can I reformat a Windows PC hard drive and install the Ubuntu Operating System
My daughter gave me her old PC, and I reformatted the hard drive with my own XP System Disk. However, if I don’t activate the license, which I can’t, it will self-destruct within 30 days.
If I ...
