Download Manager refers to a computer program for downloading files from the internet and unlike browsers, it has features of pausing/resuming broken downloads, downloading files on poor or slow connections, Downloading several files from a site automatically according to simple rules, Automatic recursive downloads ( mirroring ), Scheduled downloads e.g download start time, shutdown time etc, segmented download ( searching for different conenctions to download the same file from different mirrors).

Here is a list of best download managers that you can get for Ubuntu.

1. Wget

Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc. It works really good with slow connections by continuing to retrieve a document until the document is fully downloaded.

Wget

The main features of Wget are:

  • Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE
  • Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories
  • NLS-based message files for many different languages
  • Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally
  • Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows
  • Supports HTTP proxies
  • Supports HTTP cookies

Its the default download manager in Ubunto so you dont have to install it again. If you want to download Wget, you can download from the link below.

Download : Wget


2. Curl

cURL is a download manager which gets files from servers using the supporting protocols such as supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. Some other features include proxies, cookies, user+password authentication.

Curl

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3. Aria

Aria2 is a download utility with resuming and segmented downloading and it supports many different protocols. it validates chunk checksums while downloading a file like BitTorrent. This gives safer and more reliable download experience.

Aria

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4. Downloader for X

Downloader for X is a download manager for Ubuntu which can pause and restart downloads at any time, and utilises both the HTTP and FTP protocols. It gives the user the ability to limit download speeds to allow them to free bandwidth for other uses while downloading files.

Downloader for X

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5. Gwget

Gwget is a free download manager for Gnome Desktop which uses GNU Wget as a back-end. It tightly integrates into GNOME and Firefox. It supports all the commonly used protocols and Integrates with the GNOME notification area, including displaying of popup notifications.

Gwget

Other Features include :

  • Supports recursive downloading from web pages
  • Supports viewing of MD5sums
  • Allows resuming of interrupted downloads
  • Can restrict bandwidth usage

Download : Gwget

6. MultiGet

MultiGet is an easy-to-use and open source file downloader for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/BSDs. It supports http/ftp protocols, multi-task with multi-thread on multi-server. It also supports pause/resume downloads if the we server supports it and you can reconfig the thread without stopping the task.

Multiget

Download : Multiget

Apart from that if you can also use Firefox addons such as DownloadthemAll and Flashgot. If you ask me i will prefer DownloadthemAll and Multiget But its upto you which ever you want to use as these are the best download managers for Ubuntu right now.