On Wednesday 11 July 2001 18:05, John Griffiths wrote: > At 08:14 PM 7/10/01 -0500, Jeremy wrote: > >I am running stable, and I was wondering if there are any > > (preferably non-X) download managers that run well (and possibly > > come with) Debian. I need it for downloading some ISOs from a > > dialup connection that I can only use at night. > > #apt-get install wget > > you will fall in love so hard it will hurt
I got hurt alright. Earlier versions of wget (don't know the precise ones) had the nasty (default) habit of overwriting completed downloads. And you really didn't know if the download had been completed simply by looking at the file. Read the help! An -nc (no clobber) will probably save you the grief of seeing your megabytes gone to naught. In contrast pavuk (available in testing and/or unstable) creates a .in_* file. The presence of .in_foo.iso indicates that foo_.iso has not been completely downloaded. Pavuk also has a built-in gtk gui in case you want to X. Among its faults: I have had a bad HTTP 1.1 experience in some versions. For some reason files got zeroed when a download automatically resumes. I tend to use the option --nouse_http11 and press Ctrl-C to break a stalled download before resuming manually. Pavuk is multi-threaded, which means you can download several files at the same time, useful for cloning static websites (It can clone websites with dynamic pages but you end up with ugly-looking filenames). Now, if iso's are all you're after I could also recommend prozilla. Do check it out. Prozilla has this nifty feature of pinging various servers for the fastest download available, useful if you think the iso in question is uniquely named. I don't know if prozilla can distinguish between same-named but binary-different files. Prozilla is also multithreaded. Unlike pavuk, it uses this feature to accelerate the download of single files by chopping them up so that four (the default) equal chunks of it get downloaded at the same time. I have successfully downloaded 50+ MB files with Prozilla. Package Info: Description: Multi-threaded download accelerator Prozilla uses multiple connections to download the file faster. It brokes the files in pieces and downloads all them in one time, enhancing the download speed. . Its progress is displayed in an ncurses based UI.
