As you may know, uGet is an open-source, lightweight download manager, running on Linux, having good integration with Mozilla Firefox.
Main features:
- Downloads Queue
- Resume Downloads
- Advanced Download Categories
- Clipboard Monitor
- Batch Downloads
- Multi-Protocol
- Multi-Connection
- FTP Login & Anonymous FTP
- Scheduler
- Quiet Mode
- Robust Keyboard Shortcuts
- Computer Shutdown After Completion
The latest version available is uGet 2.0.5, which has been recently released, coming with changes:
- Save and restore width of download column.
- Adjust schedule form for large font size.
- In speed limit mode, program adjust speed when downloading start-up.
- Use filename from RPC request to match category if URL doesn’t contain filename.
- curl plug-in: use posix_fallocate() to preallocate space for a file on Linux.
- curl plug-in: use SetEndOfFile() to preallocate space for a file on Windows.
- Fix: program crash when simultaneously download > 32 files.
- Fix: Can’t save height of summary area.
Installation instructions:
Up to date packages are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems is a piece of cake.
Just add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the mumble and uget packages:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install uget
Optional, to remove uget, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove uget