Comments on: List of Download Managers Available in Ubuntu Linux

By: dirn

dirn — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:08:28 +0000

Thanks a lot.

It helps newbie like me to find the suitable download manager to use in Linux.

By: Nasim

Nasim — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:50:54 +0000

How about JDownloader? It’s quite good downloader for public file sharing sites.

By: Zain

Zain — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:26:25 +0000

i think flashgot is the best amonth the list….
still nice list

By: Shakhaoat

Shakhaoat — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:39:03 +0000

thnx man! it’s a great list.

By: Psypher

Psypher — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:07:24 +0000

Personally i have used d4x and downthemall. I don’t know if it’s just me but every version of firefox and downthemall is a PC killer. My CPU will run at 100%, funny enough the xorg process is the one running high and if I try do anything else on the machine I struggle. cannot even watch a video smoothly. i’m running a core2 due 2.4 so it’s not the machine specs. Downthemall is just not cool. Even if I don’t use dtm and just the ff download mngr my pc still dies. Maybe someone has the fix but the default install has never worked well for me. Also d4x is a bit unstable, cannot even download https from easynews without it crashing, it just doesn’t work. I have recently discovered aria and flashgot. Finally a stable fast customizable download manager!! I can highly recommend it. aria2 for command line is also good. I tried axel but does not support http authentication .

wolfric, you can get segmented downloading with aria by setting the “Devide file into” setting under the “Download 1″ tab in the list settings. Then in the main download window you can set the number of threads to that same number, that effectively spilts the file into subfiles and has a thread for each subfile. Seems to work really well for me!!

By: wolfric

wolfric — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:55:33 +0000

Im currently using Aria, because its the only GUI download manager I have found that will accept user/password details. Its ugly as sin, but it works.
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to support segmented downloading.
I’m not adverse to the commandline so I may have to check out Axel.

Thanks for the article.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:37:25 +0000

@stan

I have updated the list with axel thanks for your comment

By: Stan

Stan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:21:27 +0000

Nice list but, axel my friend is just too good to be left out of a list like this. Or will you be coming out with a list of “top must have tools” and include axel in it?

By: Xmister

Xmister — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:58 +0000

I would say that too, that Flashgot now supports download managers via wine, e.g. just install Flashget, and it will be choosable in the flashgot menu

By: cenzor

cenzor — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:38:43 +0000

This blog always amaze me. Every time I have a question or doubt in my mind about Ubuntu/Linux you always come up with an article related to it. Freakin’ telepathy.

Anyway, I’m quite new to linux and I tried several download managers, but none of them seemed to work well with the flashgot (firefox) extension. Gwget integrates well, but my downloads sometimes just doesn’t start. Although it could be the problem of the server (filefront.com), I’m not sure.

The only solution I could came up with is wget + cli + copy/paste. That works 100% of the time.

By: Ant Bryan

Ant Bryan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:33:44 +0000

I'm looking forward to GGet, a GNOME downloader being developed during GSoC. it also supports Metalink, along with aria2, DTA, KGet, & wxDF.

By: Brett Howard

Brett Howard — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:51:38 +0000

I found down them all to be a great tool when I was in windows and it works just as flawlessly in my linux environments at home. Nice list! I knew about most of these but some are new. Appreciate your time in compilation.

By: vijay

vijay — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:48:05 +0000

axel is another very fast, feature rich, command line, but easy to use download manager. I use downthemall, but use axel to down load from slowere sites and for resumable downloads.