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rmcellig · Last edited by rmcellig on Sat 09 Feb 2013, 17:52; edited 1 time in total

I am having trouble downloading the latest lxpup. Both Google and Firefox stop downloading at around 10MB or so. Is there another place where I can download it from?

Thanks!!!

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2049 Location: World_Hub

It's a w(eb)get planet. Open a shell in your dwnld dir and:

rmcellig · Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2013, 16:51 Post subject:

Thanks so much! This is the first time I use wget. Should I be using this tool in the future? You mention that I can control the throttle. I will have to check this out. Is it better downloading iso files this way?

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2049 Location: World_Hub

Sure is- big files anyway.

If you need to break the dwnld, it's: ctrl+c

To resume a dwnld, add: -c after wget and before your url.

*Not all sites allow this.

If you wanna throttle, aka >> not use all your bandwidth, it's:

--limit-rate=70k after your other switches, but before your url.

*70- a variable you decide.

These are the common ones.

User names, passwds and user-agent strings can all be used..

rmcellig · Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2013, 17:51 Post subject:

Thanks again. This will really help me a lot!