Comments on: List of Download Managers Available in Ubuntu Linux

By: joe

joe — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:09:44 +0000

hi,

i am new to Linux, so please bear it with me…

any software like free download manager (FDM) & Internet download manager (IDM) available for windows is available for linux too?

By: SwitchBlade

SwitchBlade — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:34:30 +0000

hello all

Give uGet a try, I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

More @
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DownloadManager

I like the scheduler in uGet; I can queue everything I wanna download; and schedule it during night and weekends when Internet bandwidth is least used at my work place.

By: Bilou

Bilou — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:33:42 +0000

If you are downloading from file hosting sites such as mediafire, filesonic, rapidshare et al, it would seem that only jdownloader is in the running. It worked well for me on the other major operating system. I hope the Linux version is as stable and effective. (Wildly waving a rabbit’s foot and muttering incantations to invoke A’Tuin’s good will, he clicks on “install”, and hides under his desk!)

By: AASHISH

AASHISH — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:29:28 +0000

respected sir,
i want to use internet on ubuntu i will connect micromax q3 mobile to pc through data cable, please sir explain me how it is possile & what should i do for it.

By: B

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:40:58 +0000

Thanks for the plowshare recommendation. It’s exactly what I was looking for.

By: Hadi

Hadi — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:32:52 +0000

Let’s face it ,all of these download managers suck .
Linux doesn’t have a complete and fast download manager like FDM for Windows .

By: kazak_boy

kazak_boy — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:18:15 +0000

the aria2 is good,i think, anyone tried it?

By: V

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:35:44 +0000

Do not forget plowshare

http://code.google.com/p/plowshare/

plowshare is a command line (CLI) application designed for popular file-sharing websites like rapidshare, filesonic, fileserve, hotfile etc (aka Hosters). With plowshare, you will be able to download or upload files and manage remote folders and link deletion. It runs on Linux/BSD/Unix operating systems.

By: faizlo

faizlo — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:15:44 +0000

What about prozilla!? I know it is not supported any more, but this piece of code works like fire for me.

By: watersnail

watersnail — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:00:04 +0000

I used Kget to download a video clip. Later the icon just vanished regardless how I tried to get back. Today I used add-on manager to get FlashGot. Now the kget icon appears! I can now download again.

By: ajay

ajay — Sun, 22 May 2011 04:39:35 +0000

I was looking for a good dm for a long time.
Axel is superb!!
Thanks for the info.

By: Toste

Toste — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:12:48 +0000

I am used to downloading in Windows using IDM. Most of the managers here won’t match its speed. However, KGet seems close with 20 segments setting. That is the maximum speed that I got from similar links both in Windows (IDM) and in Kubuntu (KGet).

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:02:23 +0000

wxdownloadfast (wx4d) looked cool, but the speeds varied a lot. Testing with http://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/linux/tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-1.0.15-dev-en-US.tar.gz I found that axel and aria2c were best - with axel getting the shorter download time (around 1 minute 50 compared to 2 minutes 15. wx4d got to 2 minutes 30 before I killed it).

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