Free Download Manager is a download manager for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Free Download Manager is proprietary software, but was free and open-source between versions 2.5 and 3.9.7. Starting with version 3.0.852, the source code was made available in the project's Subversion repository instead of being included with the binary package. This continued until versions 3.9.7. The source code for version 5.0 and newer is not available and the GNU General Public License agreement has been removed from the app.
Officially only the .deb installer is provided. A flatpak version exists but due to the way this program was written, it doesn't play well with a sandbox, and running it as an AppImage solves this issue while making the app available on distributions other than Debian.
Run bash <(curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FanderWasTaken/freedownloadmanager-linux-appimage/main/freedownloadmanager.sh) in your terminal.
The app is missing an icon and a version number. This can be fixed manually by using menulibre program from your distribution or via built-in menu editor, like the ones on KDE or Cinnamon.
I also made a script to patch the Flatpak version if you wish to use it. You can download it here.
- FDM (freedownloadmanager) AppImage for linux distros. | Gautham Prakash
- deb2appimage | Syretia
- Project was created with the help of Visual Studio Code