download manager

[abdossamad]

hi centos expert
what is the best download manager for centos?
kget is not suitable

thanks in advance
samad

[hunter86_bg]

Best for what ?
youtube downloads -> youtube-dl
http/ftp downloads -> wget/curl

[abdossamad]

thanks for answer
how can i install wget/curl?
is this in centos repository? (yum install) or i should download source code ?


thanks

[MartinR]

1) Use either of:

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$ yum search wget
$ yum list | grep -i wget

The former is the "official" method, the latter will also show you if the package is installed (the repo name has an "@" if it is).

2) Use $ yum info <pgk-name> to get information prior to the install and to see if it is the correct package.

3) $ man yum

You can run all of the above commands as a user, you do not need to be root for them.

[TrevorH]

Actually just yum list wget should work.

[MartinR]

Trevor is quite correct if you know exactly what the package is called. Personally I tend to use searching and grepping first in case the name is not quite right (not uncommon with my memory) but YMMV.

[TrevorH]

The problem is that yum search is fairly braindead and often doesn't even find packages where the search string occurs. I usually use yum list \*string\* to list packages that contain "string" as it's more reliable.

[MartinR]

Thanks Trevor, that trick seems to give the same result as the grep method and is a bit neater. You learn something new every day.

[hunter86_bg]

When you know the command's (or file's) name , you can easily find which package provides it via :

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yum whatprovides */wget

The */ is regex,but if you know the whole path then you can use the:

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yum whatprovides /usr/bin/wget

[TrevorH]

You need to quote the regexp or bash will expand it for you. Use yum provides '*/wget' not */wget.