DownLoad with resume.

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:34:24 +0800
Herman Aa <hermanaa at gmail.com> wrote:



> I need a good download-manager that can 'resume' (can resume a partially 
> downloaded file).
> 
> The default-download in Ubuntu has no resume.
> I checked Synaptic. Resume capability is not mentioned, not even with 
> 'bittorrent'.

Actually apt-get (Synaptic is just pretty pictures in front of apt-get) is
not bothered about an interrupted download - you just issue the command
again and it's smart enough to know what is already downloaded in the
archive, and picks up where you left off. As a test, run apt-get install
<package-of-your-choice>, then stop it by hitting ctrl+C, and reissue the
same command - you will see that there is no problem.

As for reliable resumable downloads outside of apt/Synaptic, I usually
just use

wget -c http://path.to.file

Firefox's download set-up is pretty flaky for big downloads.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a DL-manager with resume available for Ubuntu?

get as above, or you might like d4x (downloader for X) which is not as
powerful but does the job with a nice GUI frontend.

HTH, and all that ;-)

Peter