How to Install Aria2 1.18.3 - A Download Manager in Linux
To Install Aria2 1.18.3 - A Multi Protocol Command Line Download Manager for Linux
Aria2 1.18.3 is an open source and lightweight multi protocol command line download manager for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Installation of Aria2 is explained in this article.
To Install Aria2
On RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
To install Aria2 by using the following command.
# yum install aria2
On Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint
user1@linuxhelp:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install aria2 ravisaive@ravisaive-OptiPlex-380:~$ sudo apt-get install aria2 [sudo] password for ravisaive: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: ksysguardd libruby1.9.1 ruby1.9.1 Use ' apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: libc-ares2 The following NEW packages will be installed: aria2 libc-ares2 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 234 not upgraded. 10 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 1,651 kB of archives. After this operation, 4,536 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main libc-ares2 i386 1.10.0-2 [38.3 kB] Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe aria2 i386 1.17.0-1 [1,613 kB] Fetched 1,651 kB in 7s (235 kB/s)
The default repositories don' t give latest version sometimes. In that case, you have to compile and install it from source package.
To download from WEB
To download single file from the web, run the following command.
user1@linuxhelp:~/Desktop$ aria2c https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/23/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso
[#1e0a7d 2.4MiB/1.3GiB(0%) CN:1 DL:347KiB ETA:1h8m39s]
Execute the following command to download multiple files.
user1@linuxhelp:~/Desktop$ aria2c https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/23/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-23.iso https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/23/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso
[#d5ee18 5.6MiB/2.0GiB(0%) CN:1 DL:502KiB ETA:1h9m22s]
To download from BitTorrent
Use the following command to download torrent file.
user1@linuxhelp:~/Desktop$ aria2c http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
06/01 04:04:54 [NOTICE] Download complete: /home/user1/Desktop/ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
06/01 04:04:54 [NOTICE] IPv4 DHT: listening on UDP port 6961
06/01 04:04:54 [NOTICE] IPv4 BitTorrent: listening on TCP port 6944
06/01 04:04:54 [NOTICE] IPv6 BitTorrent: listening on TCP port 6944
[#6f9f1e 16MiB/1.3GiB(1%) CN:44 SD:38 DL:664KiB ETA:35m58s]^C
06/01 04:05:26 [NOTICE] Shutdown sequence commencing... Press Ctrl-C again for emergency shutdown.
[#6f9f1e 17MiB/1.3GiB(1%) CN:0 SD:0 DL:474KiB ETA:50m19s]
06/01 04:05:30 [NOTICE] Emergency shutdown sequence commencing...
06/01 04:05:30 [NOTICE] Download GID#6f9f1ebf172b6847 not complete: /home/user1/Desktop/ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso
To download URLs found in text file
Execute the following command to download list of URLs written in a text file called download.txt.
user1@linuxhelp:~/Desktop$ aria2c -i download.txt
06/01 04:05:59 [NOTICE] File already exists. Renamed to /home/user1/Desktop/ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent.1.
To set Download Speed Limit
To set download speed limit per download, execute the following command.
user1@linuxhelp:~/Desktop$ aria2c --max-download-limit=100k https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/23/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-23.iso
[#c898bc 2.9MiB/2.0GiB(0%) CN:1 DL:91KiB ETA:6h20m2s]
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