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Simple & Powerful GTK based Download Manager - UGet

Uget (formerly urlgfe) is a Free and Open Source download manager written in GTK+ , it has many of features like ...

 * Free (as in freedom , also free of charge ) and Open Source.
 * Simple , easy-to-use and lightweight.
 * Support resume download , so if your connection lost you don’t need to start from first.
 * Classify downloads , and every category has independent configuration and queue.
 * Queue download.
 * Integrate with Firefox through Flashgot plugin.
 * Monitoring clipboard.
 * Import downloads from HTML file.
 * Batch download , you can download many files has same arrange , like file_1 file_2 …. file_20 ,  you don’t need to add all links , just one link and changeable character.
 * Can be used from command line.
Uget Installation:
Open the terminal and type following command to add the Uget stable repository, this will make sure that Uget application remains updated.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable
Now, type the following command to install Uget:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install uget
After successful installation, you can open Uget from Unity 'dash'


Using Uget is really very simple ..
 * Copy the link of the file that you wanted to download
 * Open Uget, and click on the "Create New Download" icon, this will open the preference window for this particular download.
 * If required, change the download location to any preferred location and click "ok" to start your download (as shown in the image above)




1 comments:

Michael Tunnell (of uGet) said...

thank you for blogging about our application, uGet.

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