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If you are looking for a download manager for Ubuntu, we recommend Plowshare, one of the best download managers for Ubuntu.
Plowshare is a Software that makes it possible to download and upload files by using the command shell. The most popular servers are supported, as there are Megaupload, Rapidshare, 2Shared, Badongo, Mediafire, 4Shared, ZShare and DepostFiles.
To install the download manager, first we'll need to install teh right codecs by executing the following command:

sudo apt-get install curl librecode0 recode tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-deu tesseract-ocr-eng imagemagick

Now, we could visit the authors homepage, to see which is the lastest version available (today it's 0.8.1). Than we execute the following command (if we are installing a later version, we'd need to replace it):

wget http://plowshare.googlecode.com/files/plowshare-0.8.1.tgz

tar xvzf plowshare-0.8.1.tgz

cd plowshare-0.8.1

sudo bash setup.sh install

Once Plowshare is installed, we can download files by using the command shell using the command plowdown and upload using the command plowup.
Here some examples:

plowdown http://rapidshare.com/files/289304031/ubuntu-blog.tar

plowdown listaDeLinks.txt

plowup nombreDelArchivoASubir megaupload

Sometimes, when we are upgrading our system or when we want to download a package it occurs, that the download is too slow, in this case we should select a server close to our location. Ubuntu has a specific tool incorporated to realize this task for us, which we can find in the menu System -> Administration -> Software Origins. Where we'll see the following window...

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