Top Download managers in Linux Systems

Top Download managers in Linux Systems

In this article we will discuss about top download managers in Linux systems and the features of download managers. Commonly used Download managers are XDM (Xtreme Download Manager), DownThemAll, Uget and Flareget.

XDM - Xtreme Download Manager

XDM is the best download manager available in Linux which is written in Java programming language. It helps to increase the download speed up to 500%. It has features like extensions for Chrome, Firefox and helps to resume the downloaded files later, supports linux distributions, faster download, protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP.

To install

On Ubuntu/Linux Mint distributions

Execute the following command to install latest version of XDM

root@linuxhelp:~#  wget http://xdman.sourceforge.net/xdman_mint_ubuntu.deb
root@linuxhelp:~# dpkg -i xdman_mint_ubuntu.deb
root@linuxhelp:~#  xdman

For more reference: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/

DownThemAll

DownThemAll is a Firefox plugin which can be installed in platforms like Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X.. etc. It supports features like downloading all links, images, multiple files, customize options, checks SHA1, MD5 hashs. So at first go to add-ons bar in Firefox (it can be done in any other browsers too). Search for the DownloadThemAll and select to download.

Now it will prompt to restart the system.

Then you can download the contents as needed. In the DownThemAll when the cursor is placed on the orange colored bar,it will show a detailed graphical view as shown

For more reference : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

uGet

uGet is built using GTK+ library which is available for Windows and Linux. It supports features like downloading many files, torrent, metalink files, grabbing URL, integrate with FlashGot etc.

To install

On RedHat/Fedora/CentOS based systems

yum install uget

On Debian/Ubuntu/Mint

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install uget

For more reference : http://ugetdm.com/

FlareGet

FlareGet is closed source which works on Linux and Windows. It supports features like auto grabbing videos, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, integration of web browsers. It has the GUI available in 18 languages.