DownLoad with resume.

[Mehdi Hassanpour]

Gwget is  a nice gtk frontend for wget if you like to use a GUI app
http://gnome.org/projects/gwget/index.html


On 2/13/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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