Aria 2 Download Manager

GUI Aria2 adalah open source dan download manager dengan command prompt yang sangat populer. Aria2 mendukung protokol torrent secara default dan dapat mendownload file besar dengan mudah. Namun, beberapa orang mungkin tidak kompatibel dengan versi baris perintah karena perintah unduhan dapat membingungkan. UGet – The GUI Download Manager for Linux. UGet is a lightweight and full-featured Download Manager for Linux and Windows. UGet allows you to download in multiple parallel streams for download acceleration, put files in a Download Queue, Pause & Resume downloads, Advanced Category Management, Browser Integration, Clipboard Monitoring, Batch Downloads, localized into 23 Languages, and many.

I used to download the large files with wget because I can simplyresume the download tasks with -c option. This option will checkthe size of the output file, and download the rest of the file from the server.I can even restart the download task with a different URI. This featureis not available in many sophisticated download managers.

Recently, I came across Aria2, which is a command line download managerwhich supports lots of protocols, including HTTP, FTP, BitTorrents, and etc.Similar to wget, I can resume the download tasks without problems! Andthere are several features which are not available in wget:

  • Multiple tasks and scheduling
  • Split the download task and download the file in parallel
  • Web UI
  • ... and etc

In this post, I would like to give a brief introduction to Aria2.

Installation

Before we can start our discussion, we have to install Aria2 first.

To install Aria2 on Ubuntu (or Debian), run the following command:

Besides, check the file permission of your .netrc file. It should be600, i.e. only the owner can read or write the file. You can change thefile permission with following command:

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Download Files with Aria2

Aria2 is similar to wget command line tool. We can simply downloadthe files with aria2c command:

For example, to download the Debian 7.8 minimal CD image:

We can specify the output file name with -o option:

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To resume a download task, we can specify the -c option:

If we wish to download a file parallelly, we can try the -x option:

Run Aria2 as a Daemon

If we wish to use Aria2 as a download manager, we should run Aria2 as adaemon.

To start the Aria2 daemon:

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By default, Aria2 will perform 5 tasks at the same time, to change thenumber of concurrent download tasks, we can specify the -j option:

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For example, to download the files sequentially:

After starting the Aria2 daemon, click here for the Aria2 Web UI. You canadd/remove the download tasks in the Aria2 Web UI.

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Control Daemon with aria2rpc

Aria2 provides a command line tool, aria2rpc, to control the daemon.However, it is not installed by default.

To obtain aria2rpc, run the following command:

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After these steps, move aria2rpc to your $PATH, so that wecan run aria2rpc directly.

Now, we can add a download task with:

After adding a download task, an ID will be printed. We can remove a taskwith:

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