How to Download Rapidshare and Megaupload files from the Linux Terminal | Linux Today

How to Download Rapidshare and Megaupload files from the Linux Terminal

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 23, 2010

“Not long ago, we’ve shown you how to download torrent files
from the Linux terminal. Today, I will share with you a way to
quickly and efficiently download files from file-sharing websites
such as Rapidshare and Megaupload also from the command line.

“To download any Rapidshare and Megaupload file from the Linux
terminal, you will need to install an application called
‘plowshare’. You can get it from HERE.

“Before using plowshare, you should install these packages
first:

curl
recode
imagemagick
tesseract-ocr
rhino
aview
PerlMagick”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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