How to Install Xtreme Download Manager on Linux mint-18.3

To Install Xtreme Download Manager on Linux Mint 18.3

XDM can download FLV videos from popular sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, and Google Video. After installing XDM, “ Download This Video” button pops up whenever you are watching a video anywhere in the Internet. Just click on the button to start downloading clips. It can capture videos from YouTube, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Google Video or any other website and schedule downloads. XDM increases download speed up to 500%. XDM can accelerate downloads by up to 5 times due to its intelligent dynamic file segmentation technology. The software resumes unfinished download from the place where they left off. XDM also comes with a smart scheduler and speed limiter. XDM also supports queued download to perform downloads one by one.

Installing Xtreme

First, make sure you update the system by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease             
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                           
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Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en [302 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [589 kB]
Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [546 kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [238 kB]                           
Fetched 3,447 kB in 7s (489 kB/s)                                                                                 
Reading package lists... Done

And then, you shall download the XDM by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp user # wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdman/files/xdm-jre-64bit.tar.xz
--2018-02-20 23:05:04--  http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdman/files/xdm-jre-64bit.tar.xz
Resolving sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)... 216.105.38.13
Connecting to sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)|216.105.38.13|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdman/files/xdm-jre-64bit.tar.xz [following]
--2018-02-20 23:05:05--  https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdman/files/xdm-jre-64bit.tar.xz
Connecting to sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)|216.105.38.13|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
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Resolving nchc.dl.sourceforge.net (nchc.dl.sourceforge.net)... 211.79.60.17, 2001:e10:ffff:1f02::17
Connecting to nchc.dl.sourceforge.net (nchc.dl.sourceforge.net)|211.79.60.17|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 12898944 (12M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ xdm-jre-64bit.tar.xz’ 

xdm-jre-64bit.tar.xz         100%[=============================================> ]  12.30M   780KB/s    in 17s     

2018-02-20 23:05:27 (738 KB/s) - ‘ xdm-jre-64bit.tar.xz’  saved [12898944/12898944]

Also, make directory by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp user # mkdir xdm

And then, you need to extract the file.

linuxhelp user # tar -xvf xdm-jre-64bit.tar.xz -C xdm/
xdm/jre/lib/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/sunw_java_plugin.mo
xdm/jre/lib/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/sunw_java_plugin.mo
xdm/jre/lib/locale/zh_TW.BIG5/LC_MESSAGES/sunw_java_plugin.mo
xdm/jre/lib/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/sunw_java_plugin.mo
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xdm/jre/lib/ext/
xdm/jre/lib/audio/
xdm/jre/lib/zi/
xdm/jre/lib/
xdm/jre/bin/
xdm/jre/
xdm/

You can now switch the Directory.

linuxhelp xdm # cd xdm/

You need to run the script for XDM by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp xdm # ./xdm
/home/user/xdm/xdm
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /root/.xdm/.xdmconf (No such file or directory)
    at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileInputStream.< init> (Unknown Source)
    at org.sdg.xdman.core.common.XDMConfig.load(XDMConfig.java:115)
    at org.sdg.xdman.gui.XDMMainWindow.main(XDMMainWindow.java:2209)
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    at java.io.FileOutputStream.< init> (Unknown Source)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.< init> (Unknown Source)
    at org.sdg.xdman.util.LinuxUtil.createDesktopFile(LinuxUtil.java:37)
    at org.sdg.xdman.gui.XDMMainWindow.createShortcut(XDMMainWindow.java:2136)
    at org.sdg.xdman.gui.XDMMainWindow.main(XDMMainWindow.java:2289)
    at XDM.main(XDM.java:13)

You can choose the browser for XDM extension.

The XDM application is now over.

You need to choose your URL.

To choose a name for the file

And now choose a location for the file.

You can proceed with the download.

With this, the method to install XDM comes to an end.