HOW TO INSTALL JDOWNLOADER FREE DOWNLOAD APPLICATION IN UBUNTU 16.04

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Jdownloader free download application in Ubuntu 16.04. Jdownloader is a open source fast downloading application used to download contents from Internet. There are so many downloder’s are available on internet but the Jdownloader free download app is one of the most popular downloading application with some nice features and light in weight. Jdownloader app is written using Java programming language and released under GNU GPLv3 License.

Now let’s have a look at features of Jdownloader free download application :

• It’s an cross platform application available for major operating system i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS.
• Jdownloader app supports almost all major languages.
• You can start any number of downloads using this application at same time.
• You can schedule your downloads to start or stop it on later time.
• Set your downloading bandwidth limit.
• You can use official plugins to use Jdownloader free download application in any other application or any other devices like, WordPress, Java supportable mobiles…etc..
• Start, pause, stop & Resume your downloads any time.

For more information’s and features of Jdownloader you can visit the official website.

Follow the below steps to install jdownloader free download application in Ubuntu 16.04

Before we start the installation of Jdownloader free download application we have to install the official PPA repository for that. So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jd-team/jdownloader   # Install PPA Repository
[sudo] password for elinuxbook: 

 More info: https://launchpad.net/~jd-team/+archive/ubuntu/jdownloader
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp4202in7g/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp4202in7g/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 6A68F637 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp4202in7g/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 6A68F637: public key "Launchpad JDownloader PPA" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

After installing the PPA repository let’s update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command to take effect.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                      
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.dev/stable/ubuntu xenial InRelease                          
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jd-team/jdownloader/ubuntu xenial InRelease                        
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

After updating the packages & repositories now we are ready to install the Jdownloader free download application. So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install jdownloader-installer   # Install Jdownloader Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates-java default-jre default-jre-headless fonts-dejavu-extra java-common libgif7 openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
Suggested packages:
  default-java-plugin icedtea-8-plugin fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-wqy-microhei fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-indic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates-java default-jre default-jre-headless fonts-dejavu-extra java-common jdownloader-installer libgif7 openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 462 not upgraded.
Need to get 28.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 107 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y  ---> Enter 'y' to continue the installation

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As you can see above we have successfully installed the Jdownloader package. Now to confirm the same use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l jdownloader-installer   # Confirm the Installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  jdownloader-installer                0.5-0jd4~ubuntu16.04.1~ all                     download manager for one-click hosting sites

Now to open the application just type the command jdownloader on shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ jdownloader   # Open the Application

After run the above command the jdownloader application will open post downloading some official plugins. Refer the snapshot below.

You can also open the application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the Jdownloader free download application use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r jdownloader-installer   # Uninstall the Application
(Reading database ... 252163 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing jdownloader-installer (0.5-0jd4~ubuntu16.04.1~ppa1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

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