axel

Light command line download accelerator for Linux and Unix

License: GPLv2+ https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel

Availability

Distro	aarch64	noarch	x86_64	Version
RHEL 10	✓	—	✓	2.17.14
RHEL 9	✓	—	✓	2.17.14
RHEL 8	✓	—	✓	2.17.14
RHEL 7	✓	—	✓	2.17.14
RHEL 6	—	—	—

Description

Axel tries to accelerate HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple connections for one file. It can use multiple mirrors for a download. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might be useful as a wget clone on byte-critical systems.

Compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.

Install

CentOS/RHEL 10

sudo dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo dnf -y install axel

CentOS/RHEL 9

sudo dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo dnf -y install axel

CentOS/RHEL 8

sudo dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo dnf -y install axel

CentOS/RHEL 7

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install axel