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How often does it happen to you to download a new program which happen not to be any kind of debian package or something similar that you just need to use option install. Beforehand, look for README text which will probably tell you how to install the program Often for those, source code applications there are couple of steps to do in order to install them. 1. open terminal window (I use yakuake, in which u can open terminal just by pressing F12) 2. go to directory of your new, just downloaded application 3. run ./configure command - it looks if your system is ready to install application. It is checking for packages it needs to get its installed (newly downloaded application) 4. Look for comments at the end. If there is some comment like, error: 'libxyz' is not found, than you have to look for package that contains this library. I use adept-manager to search for those, and google if I fail to find it there. 5. when you finally install all packages needed, you proceed...

very cool console which starts when u press F12. alt-f2 and then write yakuake

Search for: http://((.*)/)*(.*)" Replace with: \3" Useful when you have downloaded all file from particular page, but you need this webpage for navigation through files.

If you have list of files you need to download, there is a way to do that automatically. so, assuming every line is starting with http:... in any kind of text editor you replace option to replace every "http" with "wget -c -t5 -l1 http". Then Save the list-file as a download.sh. When you do that, then go to terminal/console window, type chmod 777 download.sh and then ./download.sh It then downloads everything from the list into current folder.

linux command wget -r --http-user=USERNAME --http-password=PASSWORD https://www.SOMEPAGE.com A lot of download managers and windows freeware website downloaders claim that they can download from https website, but somehow they always fail to login to page.