what is the best download manager for Opensuse 11.1?:\
VikiSuse wrote:
> what is the best download manager for Opensuse 11.1?:\
what are you trying to “manage”?
i know there are folks making money by selling “download managers” to
Windows users, but since i’ve not used windows since about '95 i can’t
imagine what there is to ‘manage’…
i mean, i start a download and does…what is to ‘manage’?
admittedly, if it is not something like a few megs of .pdf i find via
Firefox and wanna look at now i use wget (which will automatically
restart a stalled or partial download via ftp, hhtp or hhtps)…
maybe that is what you mean by a “download manager”?
in a terminal, see
man wget
there are probably GUI front ends for it, but having not tried one i
can’t recommend one over the other…
try this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aopensuse.org+gui+front+end+for+wget
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goldie
If as goldie says you are looking for a gui style ‘download manager’ (ie it will resume your download if unfinished) look at FlashGot for firefox.
You can set it to use curl or wget.
Even a command-line ftp has always been able to resume broken downloads.
The beaty of flashgot is that you don’t have to remember a long site name together with login details - it manages/remembers this for you.
As goldie says, there are a lot of gullible windows users who will pay for anything.
VikiSuse wrote:
> what is the best download manager for Opensuse 11.1?:
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wget is feature rich.
you can also try aria2.
VikiSuse, if you are looking for a downloadmanager with many awesome features, take a look at jDOWNLOADER. ENJOY! 