Anyone know a good Linux Download Manager?
 

Hi guys, I'm looking for a program like Getright (for Windows)... one with a GUI. Do you know of any?

Thanks!

Theres d4X (downloader for X) http://freshmeat.net/releases/99346/ (should be a link to it's homepage there) that's GUI and there a quite few others, but this is often the most talked about and used, or if you wanna go console theres always the trusty 'wget'

#Garry :D

try nt or ProzGUI ( prozilla gui version).
Both of them are fast and stable, have quite a lot of functionality, can resume broken download, lookup for mirrors for parallel downloads etc

Thanks guys ;)

Yeh i'm currently using ProzGui too cause i personally haven't got D4X installed hehe (couldn't be bothered sorting out dependecies) but ProzGUi installed great and easy so your best bet is to try that first....

No worries...

#Garry :D

I thought nt was D4X? Certainly when I install D4X the executable I have to run is called nt...

I am using prozgui as well but I am not quite happy for the following reason:
I am at the uni accomodation right now and I am using a wireless connection which is very unstable.
I noticed that when i download mp3s and i get disconnected, mp3s are not downloaded correctly. Sometimes I can hear "scratches" when i playback the mp3.
It does not happen when for example I download the same file using just the firefox browser...

wget is a nice simple console based one (and very old & mature), and can do lots more than just download pausing.

Or even gwget ...

There's also cURL.

use mcurl
 

You can follow the instructions at my blog article
http://jainaman.blogspot.com/2007/03...for-linux.html

Aman Jain

I currently use the firefox plugin DownthemAll! and it works perfectly, it accelerates the download by splitting the file in 4 parts or more. A very well done program, excellent.;)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

'Downloader for X' seems to be the best choice.

other popular download manager

Hi All,

Trying out "download them all" , thanks for the replies

Tucan Manager is is by far better than JD for sites like rapidshare, etc, etc, and it's 100% free/open.