Where to find KGet?

[johnmart]

I am in BoonieLand with slow broadband, so a download manager helps maintain sanity! 
I have used KGet for ages, right up to 2010.beta2. Used it to d/l 2010-minime.kde4. But sadly can't find it on any repo from MiniMe synaptics. Maybe hidden in a meta package? (hope,hope).
Thanks for any offers.

p.s. I tried Jdownloader & wDownloader which flunked badly, so I really hope Kget is still around. 

[Tuxfriend]

IMHO it should be in the kdenetwork4 package.

[johnmart]

Tuxfriend, thanks--that's what I thought too. But it wasn't listed on the contents. If I don't get any other direction I'll install it & see if it shows up. I'm setting up MiniMe & don't want to install unnecessary apps. Guess I am getting obsessive!!   
Thanks again!
John

[Bald Brick]

tuxfriend is right.

I have kget installed and

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rpm -qf /usr/bin/kgetreports that it came with the package kdenetwork4-4.4.2-1pclos2010.

[rogaven]

the fact is
when kdenetwork if not installed, you can not find kget
the package description need a actualization


salu2

[johnmart]

Thanks everybody. Getting it now. 
Have a good day/night all! 

[T6]

optional to kget you can use jdownloader, jdownloader does more but can do similar tasks compared to kget, sometimes kget doesn't cooperate with some links and other apps might be useful

[AndrzejL]

the fact is
when kdenetwork if not installed, you can not find kget
the package description need a actualization

salu2

+1 to the description update thingy and a little thing I wanted to mention here... I installed KDE4 Minime version to avoid installing software that I dont want. I want to use kget so I have to download the entire kdenetwork package? What else is in it? Kopete that I dont use... Ktorrent I dont need... and other bunch of stuff I wont ever use...

I decided to change to

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wget -c http://path/to/the/file/You/want/to/download.zip
from the konsole...

Works basicly in the same way. Wget is a console kget backend. -c option means that if download was interrupted You can run this command again and it will continue to download the file. And download path can be found if You right click on the file You want to download and choose Copy Link Location or if You use firefox You may start downloading it in the browser and then click on Downloads path and choose the downloading file. Now pause the download to not to waste quota. Now right click and choose Copy Download Path or so.

Now in the console You can right click and paste the download path or You can use keyb combo SHIFT + INS(ERT*) to paste the file path.

After download has finished the file You downloaded can be found in /home/user/ folder.

Hope this helps to someone.

Andy

P.S. Don't get me wrong I am not complaining. I am just mentioning all this for educational purpose. For the "Inquiring minds that want to know..."

[bicol_willem]

I am in BoonieLand with slow broadband, so a download manager helps maintain sanity! 
I have used KGet for ages, right up to 2010.beta2. Used it to d/l 2010-minime.kde4. But sadly can't find it on any repo from MiniMe synaptics. Maybe hidden in a meta package? (hope,hope).
Thanks for any offers.

p.s. I tried Jdownloader & wDownloader which flunked badly, so I really hope Kget is still around. 

Although I like Kget, and since you deal with low speeds, there also "Multyget". I tried it a few times and it really performed nice.

[johnmart]

Andy: +1 on kdenetwork gripe 
Thanks for wget cli. I'll put it into use even tho I got the network package for kget.
bicol_willem: thanks for d/l sugg!
John

[AndrzejL]

Andy: +1 on kdenetwork gripe  
Thanks for wget cli. I'll put it into use even tho I got the network package for kget.
bicol_willem: thanks for d/l sugg!
John

Cheers dude.

Today I discovered new feature of wget ...

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wget -c --limit-rate=76800 http://path/to/download.zip
This will limit the maximum download speed to 75 KB/s (75 x 1024 = 76800)

Very handy for people with low speed. I can download and browse net in the same time without being forced to wait 5 mins for page to reload.

Andy

P.S. More features for me to discover under wget -h

[T6]

interesting, i do that in a gui in jdownloader   

[AndrzejL]

interesting, i do that in a gui in jdownloader   

PCLinuxOS makes us lazy to be honest. I tried other distro the other day and stuff I took for granted took me 2 - 3 hours to configure AND it was simple thing... I used to be able to do many things from cli now I forgot most of it coz of the gui stuff. What if gui breaks? Should I forget about configuring lets say samba? No I can edit the conf file and restart the service manually no need for 30 gui apps to do it for me.

I know. I am not saying GUI is bad. I love gui but sometimes I want to use the old fashion way just to know that I can use the command line if I have to.

Cheers.

Andy

[T6]

"What if gui breaks?"

load a livecd?   

there is nothing wrong on using the existing tools, if you like cli that is ok but if you like gui you can do more stuff without knowing every single detail required to enter some cli commands

some cli commands are simple but others, even reading the manual, just impossible

[AndrzejL]

"What if gui breaks?"

load a livecd?  

there is nothing wrong on using the existing tools, if you like cli that is ok but if you like gui you can do more stuff without knowing every single detail required to enter some cli commands

some cli commands are simple but others, even reading the manual, just impossible

Thats why I love CLI - I have to know every detail of the command.

Today I was playing with distro x and there is no PCC there... I got so lazy with our networking tool I forgot 99% of the commands for network connection in CLI... I was embarrassed and had to reboot to PCLinuxOS to web browse for the commands.

Then I wrote a script to make connection automagically during boot-up. Yeah! Simple and nasty BUT still... it works!

Gui is cool but it made me lazy. Linux made me lazy. You have no idea how many times when typing something like a e-mail or post on the forum I press TAB key and am waiting for the word to be auto-finished... Its a CLI habbit !

Andy