• Registered: 2011-11-04
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Topic: [Solved] Download Manager [Megaupload, Rapidshare ect.]

Hi
I want to get a download manager that can autodownload in the backround.
I've tried FatRat, Tucan and some others, but they all seem out of date.
I used to use JDownloader on windows but I can't seem to get it to download.
I tried it via Wine, which was poor but it does have a linux version.

Googling how to install it on Ubuntu I got;

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jd-team/jdownloader
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jdownloader

which hasn't worked.


JDownloader Download section
http://jdownloader.org/download/index

Any help on this topic would be appreciated

Last edited by Cynic411 (2011-12-24 14:28:59)

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Re: [Solved] Download Manager [Megaupload, Rapidshare ect.]

I thought there was a jdownloader for linux...  Anyway, try out freerapid. I have had far more success with freerapid without all the "bloat".

Link: http://wordrider.net/freerapid/

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Re: [Solved] Download Manager [Megaupload, Rapidshare ect.]

Normally, PPA's don't work with the Debian sources.list

Launchpad PPA's are made for and by Ubuntu and are not compatible with Debian packages. (generally speaking)

Although, some do from what I've heard.

jDownloader for Linux  >  http://jdownloader.org/download/index
If you're not using Ubuntu - looks like you will have to compile it from the tar.bz file
Although, it does come with instructions of how to do that.

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Re: [Solved] Download Manager [Megaupload, Rapidshare ect.]

I use JDownloader, it is easy to use on Debian, of course there are many ways how to install it.

I will just post here what I do to install JDownloader on my system.

First assure to install OpenJDK or Sun Java from Oracle, the open one is enough and is in the repos, then just type those lines without to be root in the terminal and it will take all files automatically and put an executable file into your home folder named jd.sh.

wget http://212.117.163.148/jd.sh
chmod +x jd.sh
./jd.sh

Later you can run it always from this executable. Now you can make a shortcut for a menu entry etc.

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Re: [Solved] Download Manager [Megaupload, Rapidshare ect.]

Thanks guys smile
Always really helpful
Up and running now smile

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Re: [Solved] Download Manager [Megaupload, Rapidshare ect.]

Great you have it sorted. Now before @rhowaldt comes, mark it solved. smile

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