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happy-and-lost
November 8th, 2006, 08:32 PM
Now I've got my ATi card working, I want to move my NeverWinter Nights installation over to Linux. I need to download 1.3GB worth of files to get it working, and it'll take an age to download.

What's the best download manager for Ubuntu?
skymt
November 8th, 2006, 08:39 PM
Do you need acceleration (multiple server connections, like most Windows download managers)? If not, try gwget (sudo aptitude install gwget).
23meg
November 8th, 2006, 08:40 PM
d4x. It's in the repos.
happy-and-lost
November 8th, 2006, 08:40 PM
I have a 5.5meg connection, so accel. isn't really needed. I got 3/4 of the way through my NWN download and DownThemAll! lost it (!)

gwget seems ace, cheers :D
mips
November 8th, 2006, 10:48 PM
wxDownload Fast & Aria2, depending on your preference of cli or gui.
Corbelius
November 9th, 2006, 03:08 PM
Gwget.
antini
July 10th, 2007, 11:44 PM
I have a 5.5meg connection, so accel. isn't really needed. I got 3/4 of the way through my NWN download and DownThemAll! lost it (!)

I really like aria2 (apt-get it, then 'aria2c' is the command from a terminal). DTA! is much more stable now (a beta recently came out), and if you still have trouble they are heavily into fixing reported errors right now.
FoolsGold_MKII
July 10th, 2007, 11:58 PM
D4x.
reacocard
July 11th, 2007, 12:11 AM
None of the current ones are very good IMO (d4x is best of what's available), but I'm going to change that. I am currently in the middle of writing a new download manager, which I expect to release by mid-august.
a12ctic
July 11th, 2007, 12:16 AM
plain old wget is the only one I've ever used.
LookTJ
July 11th, 2007, 12:40 AM
I must say axel is the best for me.
samjh
July 11th, 2007, 12:50 AM
Download 'Em All plugin in Firefox.
Extreme Coder
July 11th, 2007, 12:53 AM
WxDownload Fast is IMO, the best download manager for GNOME/XFCE,
iansane
September 21st, 2007, 04:29 PM
Do you need acceleration (multiple server connections, like most Windows download managers)? If not, try gwget (sudo aptitude install gwget).

Wow that was easy. I didn't know I allredy had the package. I downloaded the tar.gz from the website and was typeing exactly what it said in the install file but kept getting errors, like "compiler can't make executables" Anyone know why? Anyway the sudo aptitude thing worked like a charm. Thanks!
iansane
September 21st, 2007, 04:49 PM
OK it was easy install but flashgot says no download manager detected. What is best download manager and plugin for downloading multiple links at same time? Thanks
iansane
September 21st, 2007, 04:52 PM
sorry it detects it now. must have been because I restarted the browser. Something I need to just get in a habit of doing when ever I install something I guess
iansane
September 21st, 2007, 09:09 PM
Download 'Em All plugin in Firefox.

do you like to reformat?
bruce89
September 21st, 2007, 09:11 PM
wget.
Polygon
September 21st, 2007, 09:13 PM
axel is a good one. I had to download a ubuntu iso from http cause the torrent didnt have enough seeders, and i got about 80 kb/s... i tried axel with 10 connections and got like 700 kb/s :D
Ripfox
September 21st, 2007, 09:21 PM
Download 'Em All plugin in Firefox.

SWEET DUDE I had no idea something like this existed...thank you so much this is EXACTLY what I am looking for!
iansane
September 22nd, 2007, 12:08 AM
That is sweet dude! I thought you ment download all of the download plugins! LOL didn't realize till I googled that it's actually the name of a plugin
hanzomon4
September 22nd, 2007, 01:23 AM
nohup wget http://www.thingimdownloading.com/dada.mp3 &
Frak
September 22nd, 2007, 01:28 AM
DownThemAll! (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201)
pt123
September 22nd, 2007, 02:19 AM
I use Multiget
http://multiget.sourceforge.net/
Top program very stable supports multiple threads and works with FlashGot in Firefox.
nido
September 1st, 2008, 06:12 AM
Sorry I post wrong message.
Masoris
September 1st, 2008, 09:16 PM
Hello I think Internet download download manager is the best You can download the latest version from this link (http://rapidshare.com/files/141007993/Internetdownloadmanager_setup.exe)
:guitar:

Isn't it Windows software??? :confused:
zachtib
September 1st, 2008, 09:21 PM
Hello I think Internet download download manager is the best You can download the latest version from this link (http://rapidshare.com/files/141007993/Internetdownloadmanager_setup.exe)
:guitar:

an exe on rapidshare... looks sketchy... I'm gonna virus scan it! :P

EDIT: Well, AVG didn't turn up anything
nido
September 6th, 2008, 06:30 AM
Sorry buddies I had posted the wrong link.
:guitar:
dixon
September 6th, 2008, 02:07 PM
Fatrat (http://fatrat.dolezel.info/) is the best for me, it supports uploading/downloading to/from rapidshare, has bittorrent support and much more :)
adnan-kamili
September 15th, 2012, 06:57 AM
You can try out flareGet, which is the fastest download manager for Linux.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/flareget/
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September 15th, 2012, 12:11 PM
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