Despite it being one of the most popular and feature rich download managers out there and it being foss, it seems that most repos don’t have it ( except for flahub iirc) Is there is any reason behind that?
Despite it being one of the most popular and feature rich download managers out there and it being foss, it seems that most repos don’t have it ( except for flahub iirc) Is there is any reason behind that?
Pure speculation:
I think it’s just not that popular. Does it do something more than rclone or simple rsync? If not, then its main selling point would be GUI. But then, I think, either one can use the remote location via their file manager (like thunar with MEGA for example) or there is not that much difference between opening another app and using web. And if the selling point would be pausing and resuming download, torrents are probably more verstile
It is available in AUR, though, so maybe it’s only me that haven’t heard about it earlier
Also, it’s a java application. There is not much to package or depend on, I guess
i don’t think so there are far more less mainstream and ancient programs in the repos
the AUR is “Arch User Repository” witch is community maintained repo …so i don’t think that counts.
In the end everything is maintained by the community, the only difference is that AUR is “everyone can maintain” and official is “we have team of official maintainers that decided to maintain these packages”. Personally I can’t imagine running without using AUR
But it’s fair if it doesn’t count for you
Pausing and resuming is possible using curl as well
It can handle websites like filejoker and nitroflare, which are behind captchas and things like mega that require JavaScript or an API to serve downloads