5 download managers for linux.

December 29th, 2008 | by admin |

Download managers always put our downloading life into heaven as they provide us with the maximum download speed by making maximum connections to the downloading server and it also gives us one more cool features of resuming the downloads which is very useful in downloading big files as it is very difficult for the peoples with slow internet connection to download big files in one time.

Tons of downloading managers are available in windows but when we talk about linux there are download managers available for linux but not that much as compare to windows.But anyways given below are 5 cool download managers for linux.

1) Aria – Yet another download tool:

Aria is a download utility for Linux with resuming and segmented downloading.
Supported protocols are HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent.

Basic features

· Download file via HTTP/HTTPS or FTP
· Work with Galeon Web browser
· Drag and drop support. Supported browsers: Mozilla, Galeon, Opera, Konqueror, and Netscape
· Pasting URLs from clipboard(netscape, emacs, eterm etc)
· Internationalization
· Czech(thanks to Adam Purkrt)
· Spanish(thanks to Alejandro N. Vargas)
· French(thanks to wwp)
· German(thanks to Hermann)
· Hungarian(thanks to Boldizsar Nagy)
· Italian(thanks to Giovanni Pardini)
· Polish (thanks to Przemyslaw Sulek)
· Russian translation(thanks to Igor V. Youdytsky)
· Traditional Chinese translation(thanks to hardded)
· Japanese translation
· Cookie support
· HTTP/FTP proxy support
· Split download(can be resumed)

Download:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/aria2/aria2-0.11.4.tar.bz2

2) Axel – A lighter download accelerator for Linux and other Unices:

Axel tries to accelerate the downloading process by using multiple connections for one file.The program can use multiple mirrors for one download as well.

Download:
http://wilmer.gaast.net/downloads/axel-1.0b.tar.gz

3) FatRat:

FatRat is an open source download manager for Linux/Unix systems written in C++ with the help of the Trolltech Qt 4 library. The project is rich in features and is continuously developed.

Download:
http://www.dolezel.info/download/download.php?project=fatrat&version=1.1

4) cURL:

cURL is a tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication, file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

Download:
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

5) MultiGet:

Mutliget file downloader is programmed in C++ and has a Graphic-User-Interface (GUI) based on wxWidgets.
It supports HTTP/FTP protocols which covers the requirements of most users.
It supports multi-task with multi-thread on multi-server.
It supports resuming downloads if the Web server supports it, and if you like, you can reconfigure the thread number without stopping the current task. It’s also support SOCKS 4,4a,5 proxy, ftp proxy, http proxy.

Download:
http://multiget.sourceforge.net/download.html