{"id":8994,"date":"2019-05-27T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2019-05-27T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T15:22:33","slug":"install-uget-2-2-2-ubuntu-18-04-19-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/install-uget-2-2-2-ubuntu-18-04-19-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install uGet Download Manager 2.2.2 in Ubuntu 18.04, 19.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/uget-icon.png\" alt=\"uGet download manager\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/uget-icon.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/uget-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ugetdm.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">uGet download manager<\/a> 2.2.2 was released a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04.<\/p>\n<p>It has been one year and two months since the last release, though version 2.2.2 is a small release with following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use quicksort to sort downloads.<\/li>\n<li>backup torrent and metalink files.<\/li>\n<li>curl plug-in: handle duplicate files with double extensions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/uget222-600x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/uget222-600x364.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/uget222-450x273.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/uget222-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/uget222.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install uGet 2.2.2 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The new release package has been made into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~plushuang-tw\/+archive\/ubuntu\/uget-stable\" target=\"_blank\">uGet Stable PPA<\/a>, available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or from app launcher, and then run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw\/uget-stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/uget-stable-ppa-xenial-600x82.jpg\" alt=\"uGet Stable PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"82\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/uget-stable-ppa-xenial-600x82.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/uget-stable-ppa-xenial-450x61.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/uget-stable-ppa-xenial.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade the download manager from an existing release via Software Updater:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/upgrade-uget-450x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/upgrade-uget-450x335.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/upgrade-uget-600x447.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/upgrade-uget.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or you can run following 2 commands to check updates and install \/ upgrade uGet:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get update \r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install uget<\/pre>\n<p><b>How to Remove:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Run following command in terminal will remove the PPA and also downgrade to the stock version of uGet in your Ubuntu system:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:plushuang-tw\/uget-stable<\/pre>\n<p>If you want to remove uGet download manager, simply search for and remove it via &#8220;Ubuntu Software&#8221; utility.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uGet download manager 2.2.2 was released a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04. It has been one year and two months since the last release, though version 2.2.2 is a small release with following changes: use quicksort to sort downloads. backup torrent and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1393,1270],"class_list":["post-8994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-uget","tag-uget-download-manager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}