====== Eatmonkey ======

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**Stupid download manager for monkeys and Capuchins!**

Eatmonkey is a download manager that works exclusively with [[http://aria2.sourceforge.net/|aria2]], the ultra fast download utility. It has support for HTTP(s)/FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink files. \\ \\

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**Status**: final-draft \\
**Author**: Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet@xfce.org> \\
**Blog**: http://mmassonnet.blogspot.com/search/label/eatmonkey \\
**Tarballs**: http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/eatmonkey/ \\
**Code**: http://git.xfce.org/apps/eatmonkey/tree/?h=aria2-xml-rpc \\
**Bugzilla**: none yet

The code is currently a draft written in Ruby mainly to avoid wasting too much time fighting either with libsoup or with libsoup's Vala bindings since it is an XML-RPC client to aria2 -- not to bash on libsoup but it's less of a trouble to code with a language that has everything instead of using a pile of "//here are some functions, do it yourself//," j/k. As a consequence the draft is a features-in-progress that will finally be written in another language once some main goals have been hit. Right now it has support to download/remove/pause files, to tweak the settings and to connect on a remote machine.

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More complete list of foreseen features for the first stable version:
  * advanced settings dialog in the manager;
  * prompt/options dialog when adding new downloads;
  * notification icon for the manager;
  * separate floating icon application;
  * command-line tool //eat// to replace wget/curl;
  * upnp support for automatic nat redirection;

What won't be written yet, at least not in the draft, is a cool compact view as well as a detailed one. Mockups are however available =)

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===== Download =====
 Latest version: http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/eatmonkey/0.1/eatmonkey-0.1.4.tar.bz2

=== Archive ===
  * http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/eatmonkey/0.1/eatmonkey-0.1.3.tar.bz2
  * http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/eatmonkey/0.1/eatmonkey-0.1.2.tar.bz2
  * http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/eatmonkey/0.1/eatmonkey-0.1.1.tar.bz2
  * http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/eatmonkey/0.1/eatmonkey-0.1.0.tar.bz2



===== Installation Instructions =====

**1. Install dependencies**

The current version is written in Ruby and depends on the [[http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/|Ruby-GNOME2]] project. It is shipped as individual packages by some Linux distributions. You can find the appropriate package via your package manager, usually it is named ''ruby-gtk2'' or ''ruby-gnome2''.

**2. Extract source code**

<code bash>
tar xf eatmonkey-<VERSION>.tar.bz2
cd eatmonkey-<VERSION>
./configure # or ./configure --prefix=/usr
</code>

Now you can already run the application:
<code bash>
cd src
./eatmonkey
</code>

If something went wrong let me know and I'll try to help.

**3. Install system wide**

<code bash>
sudo make install
</code>