Saturday, May 29, 2010

How to install Download Manager - Multiget - in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid


MultiGet is an easy-to-use GUI  download manager for ubuntu / debian linux. It is Look and work like famous windows download manager flashget.

It supports resuming downloads,  It supports HTTP/FTP protocols . It supports multi-task with multi-thread on multi-server. You can reconfigure   the thread number without stopping the current task.

MultiGet runs natively on Linux, and it supports multiple operating system too.  It was tested on many system such as : Windows XP, ubuntu ,kubuntu, xubuntu, Fedora, opensuse, mandriva, MEPIS , PCLinuxOS, CentOS, Puppy,  FreeBSD, MacOS etc.

MultiGet is available from Ubuntu universe respository

Howto Install in Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install multiget

or you can use Synaptic Package Manager

7 comments:

Dileep Malayanur said...

Thank for the solution Panayara. I was in search for a identical tool. That helps me. Check for related posts @ Stark Solutions

Anonymous said...

thanks, really was searching for it..

Kapil R. Pandey said...

can i download deb package

Kapil R. Pandey said...

can i download dwb package

Anonymous said...

how can i download deb package

shibuvarkala said...

yes you can download deb

jut google this keyword "multiget deb"

Length of link is very big o I cannot post it here

gauravsj said...

just type in terminal w/o quotes
"sudo apt-get --print-uris --yes install multiget | grep ^\' | cut -d\' -f2 > multiget.txt"
a multiget.txt file will be generated containing the deb file(s) urls