How to install uGet Download Manager 2.0
To install uGet Download Manager 2.0 in Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu
In this article we are going to discuss about the steps to install uGet 2.0. Some of its new features including, Help Menu enhancements, Check for Updates, Major browsers are added i.e., Firefox and Google Chrome, Message Banner and Increase support for FlashGot.
What is called uGet?
UrlGfe is a download manager application based on GTK.
Important features
- Resuming downloads: If you encountered any network problem, you need not to worry you can continue resuming the download where it stopped.
- Clipboard Monitor: Just add the type of files to clipboard, it will automatically download that copied files.
- Multi-Protocol: It allows you to download files fast using aria2 command-line plugin.
- Scheduler: Here you can schedule all your download files.
- Download History Management: It will maintain the finished download details as per list 9,999 files.
- CLI / Terminal Support: It offers terminal option line to download files.
- Downloads Queue: Just add all your downloads into a queue, If one completed then it will start the next download automatically.
- Multi-Language Support: It supports for more than 23 languages.
- Aria2 Plugin: It gives more user friendly Graphical user interface.
To install uGet
Here we can see how to upgrade uGet under your Linux distribution.
In Debian
On Debian Unstable and Debian Testing, using official repository on a fairly reliable basis, you can easily install and upgrade.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install uget
In Ubuntu & Linux Mint
Using PPA repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable, you can install and upgrade latest version automatically.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install uget
In Fedora
You can install the latest version of uGet (2.0) easily from official repositories.
[root@linuxhelp ~]# yum install uget
Yum command has been deprecated, redirecting to ' /usr/bin/dnf install uget' .
See ' man dnf' and ' man yum2dnf' for more information.
To transfer transaction metadata from yum to DNF, run:
' dnf install python-dnf-plugins-extras-migrate & & dnf-2 migrate'
Last metadata expiration check performed 0:47:29 ago on Wed Mar 30 23:21:05 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
libappindicator-gtk3 x86_64 12.10.0-8.fc22 fedora 40 k
libdbusmenu x86_64 12.10.2-8.fc22 fedora 74 k
libdbusmenu-gtk3 x86_64 12.10.2-8.fc22 fedora 37 k
libindicator-gtk3 x86_64 12.10.1-4.fc22 fedora 67 k
uget x86_64 2.0.5-1.fc22 updates 389 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 5 Packages
Total download size: 607 k
Installed size: 1.7 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/5): libappindicator-gtk3-12.10.0-8.fc22.x86_ 71 kB/s | 40 kB 00:00
(2/5): libdbusmenu-12.10.2-8.fc22.x86_64.rpm 82 kB/s | 74 kB 00:00
(3/5): libdbusmenu-gtk3-12.10.2-8.fc22.x86_64.r 58 kB/s | 37 kB 00:00
(4/5): libindicator-gtk3-12.10.1-4.fc22.x86_64. 114 kB/s | 67 kB 00:00
(5/5): uget-2.0.5-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm 44 kB/s | 389 kB 00:08
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Total 47 kB/s | 607 kB 00:13
..
..
Installed:
libappindicator-gtk3.x86_64 12.10.0-8.fc22
libdbusmenu.x86_64 12.10.2-8.fc22
libdbusmenu-gtk3.x86_64 12.10.2-8.fc22
libindicator-gtk3.x86_64 12.10.1-4.fc22
uget.x86_64 2.0.5-1.fc22
Complete!
Now the installation is completed.
In older version of Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu, can install uGet. But in available version is 1.10.4. For upgraded version you have to update your system.
To Install aria2 plugin
It helps to get more functionality like torrent files, multi-protocol and meta links.
In Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint
Installation of latest version of arial2 using below commands.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:t-tujikawa/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install aria2
In Fedora
You can easy to install using yum command.
[root@linuxhelp ~]# yum install aria2
Yum command has been deprecated, redirecting to ' /usr/bin/dnf install aria2' .
See ' man dnf' and ' man yum2dnf' for more information.
To transfer transaction metadata from yum to DNF, run:
' dnf install python-dnf-plugins-extras-migrate & & dnf-2 migrate'
Last metadata expiration check performed 0:54:41 ago on Wed Mar 30 23:21:05 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
aria2 x86_64 1.18.6-2.fc22 fedora 1.3 M
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package
Total download size: 1.3 M
Installed size: 4.1 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
aria2-1.18.6-2.fc22.x86_64.rpm 192 kB/s | 1.3 MB 00:06
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Total 150 kB/s | 1.3 MB 00:08
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Installing : aria2-1.18.6-2.fc22.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : aria2-1.18.6-2.fc22.x86_64 1/1
Installed:
aria2.x86_64 1.18.6-2.fc22
Complete!
Now the installation is completed.
How to start uGet?
Go to desktop menu and search “ uget”
To activate aria2 Plugin in uGet
In uGet menu go to Edit, from that click settings, and then select Plug-in tab and drop down to select arial2.
uGet 2.0 Screenshot Tour
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