PhoroLinux

I recently found a good download utility. It’s called aria2. Because aria2 has segmented downloading feature, it can fast download files. In addition, aria2 supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and BitTorrent protocols. You can download a variety of files use it.

Installation

In Debian or Ubuntu, you can run the following command to install aria2:

sudo apt-get install aria2

For Fedora users, execute this command in terminal:

sudo yum install aria2

You can also get aria2 source package from here. The latest version of aria2 is 0.11.3.

Usage

aria2 is a command line interface program. So you have to run it in terminal or console.

• General usage:

  aria2c http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.22.8.tar.bz2

• Segmented download:

  aria2c -s 2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.22.8.tar.bz2

  You can specify -s option to use more connections.

• Resume download:

  aria2c -c http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.22.8.tar.bz2

• Download torrent file:

  aria2c -o gutsy.torrent http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/gutsy-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

For more usage of aria2, you can see also:

man aria2c