GNU Wget
Listed in Debian as wget
retrieves files from the web
Command lineInternetDownloaders and transfer
Not tested on a device yet. What that means
GNU Wget in Breadstick
Breadstick note
Wget downloads over Android's own network connection, a VPN connected in Android included. Saved into ~/Downloads, with Device files granted, a file appears in Android's Downloads folder too, where Android apps can open it.
Breadstick runs Debian's own wget package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so GNU Wget should behave as it does on a Linux PC. It is a command line program rather than an app with a window of its own: you run it by typing its command in Breadstick's Terminal, or in any terminal window on the Linux desktop, and it needs no Desktop or Floating session running.
Commands in the package
wget
Type it in Breadstick's Terminal to start the program.
Downloads use Android's own network connection, and a VPN connected in Android covers them too. With Device files granted, a file saved to your Linux Downloads folder is in Android's Downloads too. More in the docs: The Terminal.
About GNU Wget
From Debian's package description
Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the web using HTTP(S) and FTP, the two most widely used internet protocols. It works non-interactively, so it will work in the background, after having logged off. The program supports recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as FTP sites -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages or to travel the web like a WWW robot.
Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable connections by continuing to retrieve a document until the document is fully downloaded. Re-getting files from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that support it. Both HTTP and FTP retrievals can be time stamped, so Wget can see if the remote file has changed since the last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new version if it has.
Wget supports proxy servers; this can lighten the network load, speed up retrieval, and provide access behind firewalls.
From Debian's description of the wget package, under that package's license.
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Sources and licenses
- Name: the name people know it by, chosen for this catalog; Debian's package is wget.
- Summary: Debian's short description of the wget package, under that package's license.
- Description: Debian's description of the wget package, under that package's license.
- Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
- Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.
More in About the catalog.