Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, FlareGet is a multi-threaded, multi-segment popular download manager and accelerator, working on Linux. (like uGet or XDMAN).
The latest version available is FlareGet 4.2-92, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:
- fixed thread management issue causing crash under heavy usage
- fixed site manager history bug in Mac
- added support for executing shell commands at end of downloads
- updated file renaming logic to add index before file extension
- other minor bug fixes and improvements
In this article I will show you how to install FlareGet 4.2.92 on Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, ROSA Desktop and other systems using RPM packages.
Because it is not available via repository, we have to download the flareget tar.gz archive, extract it and install the rpm packages inside. Follow the instructions for your system’s architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install FlareGet 4.2-92 on 32 bit systems:
$ wget http://www.flareget.com/files/flareget/rpm/i386/flareget_4.2-92_i386(stable)_rpm.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf "flareget_4.2-92_i386(stable)_rpm.tar.gz"
$ cd flareget_4.2-92_i386(stable)_rpm
$ sudo rpm -i flareget-4.2-92.i386.rpm
How to install FlareGet 4.2-92 on 64 bit systems:
$ wget http://www.flareget.com/files/flareget/rpm/amd64/flareget_4.2-92_x86_64(stable)_rpm.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf "flareget_4.2-92_x86_64(stable)_rpm.tar.gz"
$ cd flareget_4.2-92_x86_64(stable)_rpm
$ sudo rpm -i flareget-4.2-92.x86_64.rpm