The world of internet downloads has evolved gradually since its inception. From P2P to FTP through other technologies. Today, probably the bulk of the downloads is done in what amounts to summon Downloads. This is nothing more than a service, usually for a fee, which houses huge files you can download any.

Because of the characteristics of the service these huge files usually fractionated. To prevent automated download usually protected by captchas. And often have limitations in the amount of data that can be unloaded in a period of time.

Jdownloader is an application that facilitates and insofar as possible circumvents this limitation. The application is developed in Java which makes mutiplataforma, available for both Windows or Linux. It also supports multiple services Direct Download.

Have Jdownloader in Ubuntu is simple. We just have to copy and run the following commands in a terminal (CTRL + ALT + T):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jd-team/jdownloader
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install jdownloader

This is installed and accessible in Applications -> Internet -> JDowloader.

Installation is valid at least in Ubuntu and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx 10.10 Maverick Meerkat