download manager

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paul555 · Post by **paul555** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:37 pm

Hi all is there any good download manager exept d4x and kget?I am using xfce and if it can be i want it in gtk

nahpets · Post by **nahpets** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:01 pm

What about:

* net-misc/aget
Available versions: ~0.4
Installed: no
Homepage: http://www.enderunix.org/aget/
Description: multithreaded HTTP download accelerator

* net-misc/aria
Available versions: 0.10.0 0.10.2_beta7 1.0.0
Installed: no
Homepage: http://aria.rednoah.com
Description: Aria is a download manager with a GTK+ GUI, it downloads files from the Internet via HTTP/HTTPS or FTP.

* net-misc/axel
Available versions: 1.0a 1.0b
Installed: no
Homepage: http://wilmer.gaast.net/main.php/axel.html
Description: light Unix download accelerator

Or: What about FTP frontends like KBear, Gftp, Kftpgrabber?

Apopatos · Post by **Apopatos** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:32 pm

I need a downloader too. D4x ends with segmentation fault, aria something similar and gwget returns many errors during downloading.
These aget and axel you mentioned are command line apps. Anything else with GUI?

anybody · Post by **anybody** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:12 am

Another two Download Managers with a GUI:

Downloader for X - http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
Konan Pro (commercial) and Konan Lite (Free) - http://www.sidespace.com/products/konan/download.php

Konan's GUI looks a bit dated according to the screenshots, but Downloader for X looks somewhat promising!

I'm using axel now, since prozilla sucks and aget doesn't work (strange glib error when starting)

Apopatos · Post by **Apopatos** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:12 pm

Yep, Downloader for X is the one I mentioned before which ends with segmentation fault (used to, now it works perfectly

) and the Konan one is not free.
Unfortunately, there are not many options for download manager under Linux...

anybody · Post by **anybody** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:34 am

Oh sorry, i didn't really realize you had mentioned that. I originally wanted to post a large list of other programs of this type, but when checking whether they were abandoned products, only those 2 remained. Only afterwards did i realize that Downloader for X was equivalent to d4x

Regarding Konan: There is a Pro and a Lite version. The Lite Version is even GPL'ed. However, i now checked the file dates of the downloads they offer, and both Lite and Pro Version have last been updated in 2001 (which explains why the screenshots look so outdated).

Since Aria also hasn't been updated in years, according to what i have gathered now, only there programs remain that work and have not been given up by their authors:

- Downloader for X, aka d4x
- Prozilla
- Axel

(I did not count Kget, since it does not seem to allow for segmentation based download-acceleration)

Given the abundance of download managers for windows, such a small list is quite surprising. I am however pretty happy with Axel, since it seems to be a worth prozilla replacement, eliminating at least the most obvious flaws.

VHockey86 · Post by **VHockey86** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:57 pm

Im using d4x and I still get segmentation faults or where it just exists with the message "killed".

What did you do to get it working properly? The strange thing is it always seems to happen after about 1 minute of downloading stuff.

I've even tried running it with the "-w" option so that it has no gui, and it still crashes.

jacek_migacz · Post by **jacek_migacz** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:53 am

SDM from SUN

http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/download.xml

it has a GUI and is very nice

Varean · Post by **Varean** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:45 am

Download manager? What's wrong with emerge?

anybody · Post by **anybody** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:52 pm

[ ] You have understood what emerge is about
[ ] You have understood what wget is about
[ ] You have understood what a download manager is about
[ ] You have understood what segmentation based download-acceleration is
[X] You post in threads without even reading them

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:22 pm

anybody wrote:[ ] You have understood what emerge is about
[ ] You have understood what wget is about
[ ] You have understood what a download manager is about
[ ] You have understood what segmentation based download-acceleration is
[X] You post in threads without even reading them

Let me put another X:

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[XX] You post in threads without even reading them

@Varean, emerge is not a download manager, download accelerator, or anything related to that. Emerge is a SO native package management tool. Just like rpm in Mandrake or apt-get in Debian. Emerge uses rsync (wich is a net protocol) and wget (which is a download manager with support for resuming) to fetch files. Then we can tell emerge to compile them, do some querys or whatever.

A download manager is something that you use to download files from the net, generic files, and not portage related files.

For example, you can't:

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emerge porno-movies.mpeg
emerge manga-films.vob
emerge my-favourite-song.mp3
emerge the-latest-gentoo-live-cd.iso

For that purposes you need a download manager. Hope it is clear what this thread was about.

Cleared that, now, on topic. The download managers in linux suck arse. Other than command line ones, I can't find a relliably and working utility to download files. I will take a look into the sun program posted above, since all the rest seems to be pure crap, being the crappy king kget.

opensas · Post by **opensas** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:35 am

What?

Hey man, it's hard to believe we don't have a thing like FDM (Free Download Manager, a marvellous piece of soft) in linux.

I would like to click on a link to a laaaaaarge file (let's say the last gentoo iso, for example) and be able to stop that thing and resume it later. With segmentation acceleration, if posible. (don't care if it has a gui or not)

Nothing of the sort in the linux world?

Saludos

Sas

Devport · Post by **Devport** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:15 pm

There is gwget.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gwget/

Section_8 · Post by **Section_8** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:13 pm

If you are using firefox, check out the downthemall extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201