One of the most famous download managers out there, uGet is really a good download manager which was built using the GTK+ library, it’s available for both Windows & Linux. Features of uGet Support for downloading many files at once with ability to set the maximum download speed for all the files together or for each one of them. Dec 15, 2014 GetDeb provides downloadable DEB packages and also Ubuntu repository for these applications. FlareGet is an advanced multi-threaded and multisegment download manager written in Qt. It is a full featured download manager, having lots of features. Browser integration for firefox is supported through flashgot. Xtreme Download manager is a powerful video downloader that lets you scale download speed by up to 500%, thereby saving on time. You can save videos from a myriad of sites such as Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Daily motion to mention a few. In addition, you can resume dead/broken downloads, schedule as well as convert downloads. Conclusion on best Ubuntu download manager: So these were some of the best Linux download managers available right now in the market. Managing downloads is a bit hectic task and should be done in a proper way to keep things organized. With Linux it could get even worse. So if you are already using some and want to get that featured in this list.
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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:
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
And there it continues beautifully.
Axel is great! There is no limit on the number of connections, and you can utilize your bandwidth.
To install axel use this command:
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:
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.)
Try using FatRat download/upload manager , though a QT based but supports a lot of Features and is continuously extended.
Some of its features:
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
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 is a download manager for the Gnome Desktop . The main features are: Resume: By default, gwget tries to continue any download.
Sources: Wikipedia & GNOME.org
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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:
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:
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 Free kannada novels online.
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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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
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.
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.
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)
I still prefer to use
wget on files.
Or you can try
plowshare which is a command-line tool:
Axel is the true Download accelerator for Ubuntu. It is a command-line based tool (which comes with a gui version which starts the download in a terminal window).
To instal :
sudo apt-get install axel axel-kapt
Axel-kapt is the gui-version.
Downloading via axel is as simple as typing
axel url on a terminal. Useful flags include :
You can install Download Helper extension in Chrome (which allows axel to take over downloads in chrome).
In Firefox it can be easily used with FlashGot addon as alternative to the default downloader.
I also use it with plowdown as an alternative to jdownloader (automatically downloads files from various websites, automating the browser)
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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.
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uGet in action with a large file partially downloaded and paused:
To boost speed by using multi-thread downloads, enable area2 plugin:
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.
That product appears to be snakeoil. A download is a download; there is no magical incantation to make it go '5 times faster'. The partial exception to this is when you are downloading from a site with multiple mirrors, then you can download from all of them simultaneously like the program
axel does. This really only helps though if you have unlimited bandwidth and the mirrors are the bottleneck, and this is rarely the case.
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! Firefox addon is great too.
Usually I use it. It doesn't support BitTorrent, though, but I use
Transmission for that.
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
But maybe you can explain what you mean by '..none of them work..'
While I agree that this is complete nonsense (most sites don't trickle their connections to limit per-connection bandwidth caps, these days), of course there are download managers.
Possibly the most popular cross-platform application is DownloadThemAll!. It's a plugin for Firefox.
Unfortunately IDM is not available for Ubuntu/Linux but there are many utilities are available which can give you fastest speed like wget and Axel are powerful download utilities.
to install it
you may get confused how to use them in easy way. I have a nice technique which I usually do.
Type in terminal
Here link can be retrieved from firefox's download window .Begin Downloading any file from firefox . It will appear in firefox download box. Pause the download process. Right click on downloading file. Choose 'Copy Link location'
Paste it in terminal in place of link. Here note that you should not missed single quote. If you want to stop then press CTRL+C best thing is that your download would never be corrupted and you can resume it by pressing Up key and enter( command again).
jDownloaderPros
Cons
I used
IDM on Windows long ago and I was missing a downloader like IDM and found jDownloader . you will need some time to get used to jDownloader
I have downloaded files greater than 2-3 GB with many disconnections (due to network problem) but the
MD5 was exact !
Firefox extension DownThemAll with parallel download and resume support.
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I use Uget. Its a simple downloader, and supports resuming. THe latest version of uGet ie v1.8.0 also supports torrents. when you run uGet, it also does very well to detect the presence of a filepath in the clipboard, and asks if you want to start downloading.
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I think that JDownloader can do everything that you want:
Is the most Versatile Download Manager I found.
It is having all most all the features of popular download managers like IDM or DAP
* Batch Download * Browser Integration * Scheduled Download
* Flash Video Downloading
All those features are there.
Installation:
For 32 bit:
For 64 bit:
I humbly recommend TwistLoad for managing downloads. The program provides the core functionality you would expect in a download manager: automatically following redirects, cross-session interrupt / resume support, and a nice GUI interface to keep track of everything:
You can download TwistLoad from my PPA here.
Disclaimer: I am the author.
Hello from the uGet project team,
I would suggest uGet.
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.
I use jdownloader. It's a very good download manager which even supports various one click file hosters like rapidshare, fileserve etc.
You can download it from here.
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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:
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.
While Uri Herrera had a very good explanation for what a download accelerator is, the solution that was pointed out, Gwget, is far from what he described as a download accelerator. Gwget is exactly what its name implies, a GUI on top of wget, the most basic of basic unix download program.
One of the reliable ways to get the job (acceleration) done is to download through multiple threads from a particular server. Some servers restrict download speed by threads, instead of the IP. In such cases, if a server limits your download to 100KB/s, having 6 thread will give you an upper bound of 600KB/s, a very significant boost.
So far the one linux program that does this is Multiget, it's a little bit of a pain to setup with firefox, however. But at least it's easy to install on Ubuntu. Google 'Multiget deb' to download the debian package. Then look up on the Multiget documentation to see how to hook it up with flashgot. Good Luck
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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:
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You can try out flareGet ( a recently released download manager for linux). It is multi-threaded and supports upto 16 segments per download for download acceleration. It supports browser integration for all the browsers - firefox, chrome, opera etc.http://flareget.com/download
There are several download manager in Linux world but i preferred the following ones:
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