How to install Xtreme Download Manager (XDM) in Linux

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How to install Xtreme Download Manager (XDM) in Linux

Installing XDM in an OS like Microsoft Windows is as easy as downloading the binary executable and double clicking on it to proceed to a guided GUI installation. However, on Linux distributions, GUI is not an option (or at least not fully) in the installation process.

The process is step-wise and can be achieved as either using GUI (for the most part, with the exception of the installation part) or purely using Terminal CLI.

[METHOD 1: GUI]

Step 1: Download the bi

After installation, XDM is installed in the /opt/ directory where you can find all its files.

nary executable

Below are links to official/trusted sources of the packages. For the Linux packages, you will download an archived file with a .tar.xz extension:

https://github.com/subhra74/xdm/releases/
https://xtremedownloadmanager.com/#downloads

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Step 2:Extracting the package

After downloading the archive, you must unarchive/extract it. Using GUI, you can open the archive using an Archive Manager and “Extract” it to your destination location of choice.

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Step 3: Install the package on Terminal

For XDM, there is no way around installation (at least in Kali Linux use case) without CLI. GUI is not an option here. To proceed with the installation, you need to open the extract destination location on Terminal, then run the installation script. To avoid issues with the commands, switch to root use first.

sudo su -
cd /path/to/destination/location
./install/sh

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Step 4: Running XDM

To run XDM, open the executable by searching for “XDM” in Applications.

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[METHOD 2: TERMINAL]

Step 1: Download the binary executable

wget -O xdm-setup-7.2.11.tar.xz https://github.com/subhra74/xdm/releases/download/7.2.11/xdm-setup-7.2.11.tar.xz

Step 2: Extracting the package (Check how you can extract/unarchive the *.tar.xz archives here)

tar -xJvf xdm-setup-7.2.11.tar.xz

Step 3: Install the package on Terminal

sudo su -
cd /path/to/destination/location
./install/sh

Step 4: Running XDM

xdman

After installation, XDM is installed in the /opt/ directory where you can find all its files.

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Here’s the result of running the above command, with the XDM GUI launching. Note however that, after running XDM on terminal, if you interrupt that terminal XDM will quit;

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[How to UNINSTALL Xtreme Download Manager (XDM)]

After installation, for whatever reason, you might want to UNINSTALL XDM. If it comes to that, here’s how to achieve that on Terminal. Note that you will have to navigate to the XDM installation location or use the long path to that directory before proceding;

/opt/xdman/uninstall.sh

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How to install Xtreme Download Manager (XDM) in Linux
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