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
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
For me the best manager is Jdownloader. Download from rapidshare and megaupload (even recognize CAPTCHA)
http://tips-linux.net/en/content/jdownloader
This is really good. Where DownThemAll and wget failed, this pulled down 2 multi-gigabyte files in threaded mode and assembled them correctly.
Nice … A good alternative to flashget.