1. Help this project

Axel needs your help. If you are a programmer and if you wants tohelp a nice project, this is your opportunity.

Axel was imported from its old repository1 to GitHub (the originalhomepage and developers are inactive).

If you are interested to help Axel, read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Dec 30, 2015 this video help you to download files with axel axel -n32 -a 'your download link' http://hackkat.blogspot.com/2015/12/h. Hi I am looking for a download accelerator like axel, the only proble with axel is that you can not enter a http usernae and password. />I am currently using ubuntu. Axel is the only download accelerator that I have found that goes as fast as windows flashget.

Additionally, there is a group to discuss and to coordinate thedevelopment process3. You can also find other developers in the#axel channel on freenode.

2. What is Axel?

Axel tries to accelerate the download process by using multipleconnections per file, and can also balance the load betweendifferent servers.

Axel tries to be as light as possible, so it might be useful onbyte-critical systems.

Axel supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS protocols.

Axel was originally developed by Wilmer van der Gaast. Thanks for yourefforts. Over time, Axel got several contributions from people. Please,see AUTHORS and CREDITS files in source code.

Building from source

Release tarballs contain a pre-generated buildsystem, but if you need toedit/patch it, or you're building from a copy of the repository, then you mayneed to run autoreconf -i to generate it. Further instructions are provided inthe INSTALL file. The basic actions for most users are:

To build without SSL/TLS support, use ./configure --without-ssl.

Dependencies for release tarballs

gettext (or gettext-tiny)
pkg-config

Optional:

libssl (OpenSSL, LibreSSL or compatible) -- for SSL/TLS support.

Extra dependencies for building from snapshots

autoconf-archive
autoconf
automake
autopoint
txt2man

Building on Ubuntu from Git

Packages

build-essential
autoconf
autoconf-archive
automake
autopoint
gettext
libssl-dev
pkg-config

Build instructions

Mac OS X

Install with Homebrew

Building

Install the following homebrew packages:

You'll need to provide some extra options to autotools so it can find gettextand openssl.

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You can just run make as usual after these steps.

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