I have always found that Mac OS X lacks an elegant yet free downloading tool that supports segmented downloading until I met ">aria2, which is a linux-based command-line downloading tool. From their website:
Here's how I got the latest version (0.9 as of this writing) to compile on OS X:
[robg adds: This worked as described for me. After installing, you can get help by typing man aria2c in Terminal.]
aria2 is a download utility with resuming and segmented downloading. Supported protocols are HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent. It also supports Metalink version 3.0.It is very stable and fast (at least no slower than Speed Download and iGetter on my computer. However, the latest 0.9 version of aria2 does not compile on Mac OS X. After some work, I figured out how to make it compile -- read on for the how-to.
Here's how I got the latest version (0.9 as of this writing) to compile on OS X:
- Download the latest 0.9 version of aria2.
- Untar by double-clicking the downloaded file.
- Use a plain text editor to open the file src/DefaultBtContext.cc. Just after the line #include "Util.h", add this section:
char * basename (const char *filename) { char *p = strrchr (filename, '/'); return p ? p + 1 : (char *) filename; } - Go to Terminal, cd to the folder where aria2c source is located, and run the following commands:
./configure make sudo make install
[robg adds: This worked as described for me. After installing, you can get help by typing man aria2c in Terminal.]
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