flareGet – download manager for linux
flareGet is a full featured, multi-threaded and multi-segment download manager utility designed for Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems.
flareGet supports browser integration through add-ons and many features, including amazingly fast downloads with its robust dynamic file segmentation algorithm, enhanced browser integration, support for resuming unfinished downloads, and intelligent file management.
Features
- Dynamic File Segmentation: It uses a robust dynamic file segmentation algorithm to speed up the download. It supports up to 32 segments per download
- HTTP-Pipelining: In addition to dynamic file segmentation, each segment is further accelerated up to six times
- Auto Segmentation: When one segment ends, it starts another segment to help terminate another segment more fast
- Advanced Browser Integration: The only download manager for Linux which integrates with all the browsers to snatch away download url and start the download by itself. It does this magic without any addons
- Multi-protocol support: It supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols to let you download files from internet. It also supports pipelining for HTTP and HTTPS protocols
- Intelligent file management: It uses an intelligent file management system to automatically categorize your files based on their extensions. All the downloads are grouped in different folders as per their categories.
- Flash video download: One click flash video download from most of the sites is supported for all the browsers
- Resume support: You can pause the downloads to download them later, you needn’t start from the beginning again. It also automatically retries when a segment or download fails
- Smart Scheduler: You can easily schedule flareGet to download files automatically. It allows you to start and pause downloading files at the set time
- Add or remove segments: You can add or remove download segments dynamically without interrupting the download
- Clipboard Monitoring: No need to copy paste your download links, it monitors your clipboard
- Limit downloads: You can limit the number of simultaneous downloads, when one download ends, another starts automatically
- Multi language support: flareGet is being translated into many languages, currently English, Arabic, Italiano and Chinese are available
Install flareGet
To get the latest version, see the flareGet downloads page – there are .rpm and .deb files available.
Install flareGet in Debian, Ubuntu and Mint linux
Download and install flareGet 32bit version:
$ wget http://www.flareget.com/files/flareget/debs/i386/flareget_2.4-27_i386(stable)_deb.tar.gz $ tar xvf flareget_2.4-27_i386(stable)_deb.tar.gz $ cd flareget_2.4-27_i386(stable)_deb $ sudo dpkg -i flareget_2.4-27_i386.deb
Download and install flareGet 64bit version:
$ wget http://www.flareget.com/files/flareget/debs/amd64/flareget_2.4-27_amd64(stable)_deb.tar.gz $ tar xvf flareget_2.4-27_i386(stable)_rpm.tar.gz $ cd flareget_2.4-27_i386(stable)_rpm $ rpm -ivh flareget-2.4-27.i386.rpm
Install Flareget in Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA
For 32-bit systems, install Flareget with the following commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/flareget-i386 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install flareget
For 64-bit systems, install Flareget with the following commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/flareget-amd64 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install flareget
Install flareGet in CentOS and Fedora linux
Download and install flareGet 32bit version:
$ wget http://www.flareget.com/files/flareget/rpm/i386/flareget_2.4-27_i386(stable)_rpm.tar.gz $ tar xvf flareget_2.4-27_i386(stable)_rpm.tar.gz
$ cd flareget_2.4-27_i386(stable)_rpm
$ rpm -ivh flareget-2.4-27.i386.rpm
Download and install flareGet 64bit version:
$ wget http://www.flareget.com/files/flareget/rpm/amd64/flareget_2.4-27_x86_64(stable)_rpm.tar.gz $ tar xvf flareget_2.4-27_x86_64(stable)_rpm.tar.gz $ cd flareget_2.4-27_x86_64(stable)_rpm $ rpm -ivh flareget-2.4-27.x86_64.rpm
Start flareGet.
