Looking for a download manager which supports multi-tasking and multi-threading on multiple servers? .Here is something that looks just perfect for what you need. While stumbling upon Google, I found this little download manager which nearly supports all OS including Ubuntu.

It depends on GTK+ runtime environment in Linux if statically linked with wxWidgets

It has a nice GUI with Multi Threading and support for both FTP & HTTP protocols. You can also add mirrors for the download you selected and also choose between the languages. (currently English and Chinese). It works seamlessly on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

You may find the interface a bit weird, but the project is really promising.

The management was good and has categories for Running, Paused, Failed, Finished and Deleted Tasks as expected

MultiGet file downloader

INSTALLATION

Press Alt+F2 and do:

sudo apt-get install multiget

After you’re done with installation you can access it in: Applications –>Internet

What I found a bit weird was that it wasn’t available in FlashGot, so using it with Firefox was a bit difficult but here’s a work around :

• Open FlashGot Options (Tools -> FlashGot ->More Options)
• Click Add
• Enter the download manager name: MultiGet (or whatever you want)
• Browse the location of MultiGet at /usr/bin
• Find MultiGet then click Open
• This is the important steps. insert [url=URL] [refer=REFERER] in the command line arguments place. That is for make flashgot can work together with multiget
• Finally, click Ok

Overall, I’ll give it a rating of 3 out of 5.