Downloading from the Internet is a task that is part of the daily life of Internet users. We constantly download content such as images, audio, games, programs … We can use different programs and also media for this, as well as direct downloads. Downloading Torrent files is one of the options we have. We can download these types of files in the different operating systems that we use. In this article we are going to talk about Aria2 , a tool that allows us to download via HTTP, FTP and Bittorrent from the Linux terminal in a simple way.
Aria2, the tool to download from the Linux terminal
Linux, in its different distributions, is widely used by users as an alternative to Windows. We can find both graphic tools and also run programs through the terminal. We have a wide range of possibilities for almost everything. Of course there are also options to download all kinds of files.
Aria2 is an interesting tool that we can use from the Linux command line, in distributions like Ubuntu. We can say that it is used to download practically any content that is on the network. For example we can download files Torrent, HTTP, FTP … It works in a simple way.
Keep in mind that Aria2 works through the operating system command line . However, we can always install a graphic download manager.
How to use Aria2 on Linux
In our case we are going to test it on Ubuntu, which is one of the most popular Linux distributions. However, the operation would be similar in other distributions that we use. The first thing we have to do is install it.
To install Aria2 from the Linux terminal we must execute the following command:
Sudo apt-get install aria2
It will ask us for the administrator password and then the download begins. It will also ask us for permission to download the files and then install them. As we will see, it only occupies 6 MB, so it is a tool that will not cause a memory problem on our device.
Once the installation process finishes, something that will only take a few seconds, we can start using this tool. It is very easy and we simply have to execute the following in the terminal:
Aria2c URL
We change the URL parameter for the file’s address, which can be Torrent or any other. We just write it and run it, like the example that we can see in the image below, where we have tried to download a Linux Mint distribution through a Torrent file with Aria2c.
The files will be stored in the default download folder that we have on the system.
As we have seen, Aria2c is very easy to use. We simply have to install it on our system through the Linux terminal and then execute the links of the files that we want to download. However, as we mentioned at the beginning we can also use graphic tools to download.
uGet, a graphical download manager for Linux
Linux usually offers us the possibility of using both graphical tools and through the command line. Some people prefer to manage everything directly from the terminal, while others, mainly users more accustomed to Windows, opt for more visual programs.
In this sense we have a series of options to download files in Linux distributions such as Ubuntu. In our case we have installed uGet , which is a simple and very useful program to download Torrent files and others.
To install it we simply have to execute the command sudo apt-get install uget. It will ask us for the administrator password and then its installation will begin.
Once we have it installed we can open it. As we see in the image below, it is a simple and easy-to-use program. There we can manage the downloads that we are going to make from a Linux system.
In short, Aria2 is a tool to download all kinds of files from the Linux command line. We have seen how to install it and how we can use it in a simple way. We can also make use of other graphic programs for the same purpose, such as uGet, which is what we have tested.
