What download managers are available for Ubuntu?
Solution 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.
Solution 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.
[Install it from here](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/downthemall/ or search downthemall in the addon manager.)
Solution 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
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
Other Useful Links :-
For Browser Integration
For Plugins and for Extensions
For FatRat Documentation
Official FatRat Page
Solution 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.
It also has an indicator applet.
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.
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.
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:
- Flashgot
- DownThemAll
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.
More Information
Steadyflow
Uget
Jdownloader
Solution 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
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