If you want a download manager to help you extend your Mozilla Firefox downloading capabilities DownThemAll! is all that you will need. Should you need to repair a broken download, there are instructions at Download help, section Repairing a Download." Adds new downloading capabilities to Firefox." See in the SDB article Download help, section Checksums for an explanation how to do that. If your Metalink program doesn't support this, and you want to be sure that the Metalink transfer did not contain any errors and matches official ISOs, you should compare this number for your own ISO image to checksums listed on.
openSUSE Metalinks also contain repair information to fix errors that may occur during download, but only aria2 0.10.1 and higher currently support this. Metalinks can contain full file checksum information which will automatically be verified with aria2, DownThemAll!, Free Download Manager, GetRight, wxDownload Fast, Orbit, and Speed Download.
It may take a minute or two to allocate space before the download begins for DVD ISOs, but it will save time later. To download the 11.2 i386 DVD iso, for instance, all you need to do is copy the link and run aria2c:Īria2c -M Īria2c preallocates space on your filesystem to mimimize file fragmentation, therefore you will see it counting a progress number to 100% before it actually starts to download. Other clients available for Mac OS, Windows, and Unix not mentioned here. (No Mac OS binary) Packages for openSUSE hereĪria2 is the recommended Unix command line client, it has the ability to prevent checksum errors.Ī download manager that can also be run under GNU/Linux using Wine You'll need download manager that can handle the metalink format, some examples are:Ī extension for Firefox, is probably the easiest way for most people to try out Metalinks. They are also visible on the download server in the same directory where the iso images are found. They are provided by the master download server, which runs MirrorBrain which dynamically generates them. You can find metalinks for openSUSE images directly on.
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