FatRat - The Best Download Manager For Linux

In my ongoing quest to get an free, lightweight and fast download manager with remote access ability for Raspberry Pi. I settled for Transmission to get torrent downloading and pyLoad for ftp/http downloading, however both of them have issues under limited resources of Raspberry Pi and had frequent crashes now and then.
After, a lot of research, tweaking and testing - I had finally found the best option for a perfect lightweight download manager on linux as "FatRat". Despite the name being FatRat, this open-source download manager for Linux is written in C++ and is slim on requirements, fast on performance and comes with all the bells and whistles one would need from an modern download manager including Segmented HTTP(S)/FTP downloads, FTP uploads,
torrentsand a super-fast web-ui for remote access.

Features (of the Git* version):

• Segmented* HTTP(S)/FTP downloads
• FTP uploads
• Support for SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies
• RSS feed support + special functions for TV shows and podcasts
• BitTorrent support (including torrent creating, DHT, UPnP, encryption etc.)
• Torrent search on major torrent sites incl. The Pirate Bay, EZTV, BitTorrentMonster...
• RapidShare.com FREE and premium downloads and uploads
• RapidShare.com link verification and folder extraction
• RapidSafe link decoding
• MD4/MD5/SHA1 hash computing
• Remote control via AJAX* web interface and Jabber
• Subtitle search
• RAR/ZIP file unpacker
• Scheduler
• Clipboard monitor

Installation as very easy, simply use the apt-get (or similar) package manager to install and configure as shown below :

1. Use apt-get install fatrat at terminal and complete the installation process.

2. Once installed, FatRat can be launched in headless mode using the fatrat -n (--nogui) switch.
3. To enable the webinterface from command-line use - fatrat-conf -w remote/enable=true remote/port=PORT remote/password=PASSWORD.
4. Now to control FatRat remotely, launch the web-browser and navigate to http://YOURLANIP:FATRAT_PORT.
5. FatRat web-inteface is super fast and feature rich. You can add new downloads.

6. Browse a location to save downloaded files.

7. Check download stats and control status.


8. If you are using FatRat on a regular Linux desktop environment or over VNC, you can use the excellent, powerful user-interface for advance options and features.