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15. Download managers
If you don't want to use Firefox's default download manager you can try the following download managers. In case you want to easily download rapidshare files with your Premium Account you can check my guide How to easily download RapidShare files in Linux .
* wxDownload Fast
wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source multi-threaded download manager. This means that it can split a file into several pieces and download the pieces simultaneouslysu -c 'yum install wxdfast'
* kget
This is KDE's default download manager. if you are using GNOME you will have to download a lot of dependencies and KDE libraries, so you'd better not use it.su -c 'yum install kdenetwork'
16. PDF Readers
* evince
The default pdf viewer for Fedora is Evince. If it's not installed type:su -c 'yum install evince evince-djvu evince-dvi'
* acrobatreader
First you must install the adobe repository.su -
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
Now open a terminal and type:
su -c 'yum install AdobeReader_enu' enu stands for the English package. To search for other languages type:
su -c 'yum search AdobeReader'
17. Torrent Clients
* Transmission
Fedora 10 comes with Transmission as a default torrent client. You can find it under Applications -> Internet -> Transmission or in case you don't have it installed type:su -c 'yum install transmission'
* KTorrent
ktorrent is an alternative torrent client for KDE users.su -c 'yum install ktorrent'
* qBittorent
qBittorent is a featureful, lightweight torrent client based on QT4 toolkit. You must install an additional repository since it isn't included still in any of the other fedora repositories.su -c
rpm -ivh http://www.dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion-testing/qbittorrent/10/i386/qbittorrent-release-1-1.noarch.rpm
yum install qbittorrent It has x86_64 packages also. Just type the same commands as above replacing i386 with x86_64.
* Bittorrent
You could also try bittorrentsu -c 'yum install bittorrent bittorrent-gui'
* Deluge
Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.su -c 'yum install deluge'
* Azureus
Azureus is a powerful torrent meta-search with login support for private trackers. It's now called Vuze and has reached version 4. However in Fedora repositories you will find only Azureus version 3. Install it like this.su -c 'yum install azureus'
