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MultiGet – a multithread download manager for Ubuntu Linux desktop

Posted by mypapit on 19 Sep 2009 in Computers, Internet Stuff, Open Source

It’s extremely frustrating to have your download progress interrupted, especially when you are downloading several (relatively large) files over the Internet. Fortunately, there’s MultiGet, a download manager that supports multi-connection and parallel downloads.

MultiGet is easy to user, and from my observation, it’s interface closely resemble Flashget download manager from Microsoft Windows platform. The differences is, that MultiGet runs natively on Linux, and it supports multiple operating system too.

MultiGet has a simple, friendly user interface that is easy to use. Best of all, it supports batch task downloading.

MultiGet Screenshot

MultiGet is available from Ubuntu universe respository

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Tags: desktop, downloader, flashget, getright, internet, karmic, karmic koala, linux, multithread, ubuntu, utilities, utility, wget

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1. Anon Said:
   September 20th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

   Nice … A good alternative to flashget.

2. Anon2 Said:
   November 19th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

   This is really good. Where DownThemAll and wget failed, this pulled down 2 multi-gigabyte files in threaded mode and assembled them correctly.

3. danny0085 Said:
   February 1st, 2010 at 6:07 pm

   For me the best manager is Jdownloader. Download from rapidshare and megaupload (even recognize CAPTCHA)

   http://tips-linux.net/en/content/jdownloader

4. Dan Collyer Said:
   April 24th, 2010 at 7:12 am

   The main reason I would not use Ubuntu in the past for all my premium rapidshare downloads, was I did not have enough knowledge of the software available. In fact I am still in the dark as to what is out there, so I decided to write a post on my blog UbuntuDan and get educated at the same time. I hope this helps someone.

   http://ubuntudan.blogspot.com/2010/04/ubuntu-rapidshare-download-manager.html