No package manager????

[Rava]

I don't know if "wget" allows parallel downloads if your connection could handle it. That would have been the main difference. The FDM is available for all "popular" platforms too.

wget doesn't support parallel downloads.
When you want a terminal app that does, try aria2 (I don't care about "popular" platforms - I now completely removed SM-Witless-OS from my life and it's liberating to not having to bother with that any more):

root@porteus:/# getmod -s aria2
aria2-1.36.0-x86_64-1salix15.0 (CLI Metalink/BiTorrent client)
persepolis-3.2.0-x86_64-1salix15.0 (Persepolis Download Manager is a GUI for aria2)

As you can see, there is even an GUI available for it.

Some tips for you CLI users:

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aria2c -l logfile -s 5 http/ftp-address
> ftp://USER:PASSWD@ftp.server.example
> --ftp-user=USER     Set FTP user. Affects all URLs. Default: anonymous
> --ftp-passwd=PASSWD Set FTP password. Affects all URLs. Default: ARIA2USER@

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I myself used aria2c in the past (the binary is called aria2c when the package itself is called aria2) but do not recall ever using Persepolis Download Manager GUI so i cannot say anything on that.
(I often prefer the terminal and go without a GUI alternative as you can easily write scripts that way.)

[Testuser]

Free Download Manager

Hope you got the FDM working in Porteus.

I have downloaded the deb from here https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/dow ... -linux.htm and converted it to xzm and it is working (the size is little bit huge 38 MB).

I normally use Uget that is only 1 MB (most libs are already included in Porteus).

Almost all features of FDM are in Uget (except Torrent downloads), nothing more I found.

Please try that. If you still need Uget I will post it.

[Rava]

I have downloaded the deb from here https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/dow ... -linux.htm and converted it to xzm and it is working (the size is little bit huge 38 MB).

38 MB for download manager, that is a bit too much for my liking.
I normally use Uget that is only 1 MB (most libs are already included in Porteus).
When I recall right uget was part of way older Porteus, like 1.0 or 2.0 or such.
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I just tested it out of curiosity, at least in XFCE Porteus 5.0 aria2 only gets created out of the aria2 package by getmod.

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root@porteus:/# getmod -m aria2
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  aria2 
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1.2MB of archives.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] y
1/1 Get http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/extra-15.0/ aria2 1.36.0-x86_64-1salix15.0 [1.2MB]...Done

Done
Verifying package aria2-1.36.0-x86_64-1salix15.0.txz.
Installing package aria2-1.36.0-x86_64-1salix15.0.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# aria2 (CLI Metalink/BiTorrent client)
#
# aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform
# download utility operated in command-line.
# It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
#
# Homepage: https://aria2.github.io/
#
Package aria2-1.36.0-x86_64-1salix15.0.txz installed.
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 8 processors
Creating 4.0 filesystem on /tmp/aria2-1.36.0-x86_64-1salix15.0.xzm, block size 262144.
[=================================================================/] 12/12 100%

Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, zstd compressed, data block size 262144
	compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments,
	compressed xattrs, compressed ids
	duplicates are removed
Filesystem size 1017.18 Kbytes (0.99 Mbytes)
	37.34% of uncompressed filesystem size (2723.81 Kbytes)
Inode table size 309 bytes (0.30 Kbytes)
	40.55% of uncompressed inode table size (762 bytes)
Directory table size 267 bytes (0.26 Kbytes)
	60.82% of uncompressed directory table size (439 bytes)
Number of duplicate files found 0
Number of inodes 21
Number of files 2
Number of fragments 1
Number of symbolic links 3
Number of device nodes 0
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 0
Number of directories 16
Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 1
Number of uids 1
	root (0)
Number of gids 1
	root (0)

====> '/tmp/aria2-1.36.0-x86_64-1salix15.0.xzm' was created successfully.

The module is 1044480 bytes (1020.00 KB) and works after activating out of the box:

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guest@porteus:/myvideo/Kalkofe/Kalk+Welk$  aria2c --version
aria2 version 1.36.0
Copyright (C) 2006, 2019 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

** Configuration **
Enabled Features: Async DNS, BitTorrent, Firefox3 Cookie, GZip, HTTPS, Message Digest, Metalink, XML-RPC, SFTP
Hash Algorithms: sha-1, sha-224, sha-256, sha-384, sha-512, md5, adler32
Libraries: zlib/1.2.12 libxml2/2.9.14 sqlite3/3.37.2 GnuTLS/3.7.2 nettle GMP/6.2.1 c-ares/1.18.1 libssh2/1.10.0
Compiler: gcc 11.2.0
  built by  x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu
  on        Jun 11 2022 05:45:39
System: Linux 5.4.30-porteus #1 SMP Sat Apr 4 20:11:00 UTC 2020 x86_64

Report bugs to https://github.com/aria2/aria2/issues
Visit https://aria2.github.io/

[KenUnix]

I think I understand. Proteus is intended to be portable kind of like Puppy right?

Put it on a memory stick and take it with.

Right?

[Ed_P]

That is a popular option.

If you're looking for a package manager check out this threat: [Porteus 5.0's USM replacement] getmod: A wrapper for slapt-get to build modules

[Rava]

Proteus is intended to be portable

portable is even one of the 4 descriptions you see as the first printed line when booting up Porteus.