Welcome to Axel Download Accelerator project!

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.

Wilmer van der Gaast is the upstream author of Axel. Y Giridhar Appaji Nag and Philipp Hagemeister are the current maintainers. See the original upstream page.

Axel SCM: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/axel/
WebSVN: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/axel

ViewSVN: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/axel

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Latest release

Download Axel 2.4 axel-2.4.tar.gz. Older releases are available too.