FrostWire 6.0.8 is out, Available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE and Mac OSX

FrostWire 6.0.8 is out, Available for Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS, OpenSUSE and Mac OSX


FrostWire is an open source and cross-platform application that allow users to share large files and folders at faster download speeds over the Internet, with other people. It is compatible with the BitTorrent network, and allows users to download Magnet links.

Features at a glance

Key features include user-friendly online chat rooms, support for Internet radio stations, skins, Apple iTunes support, as well as a media library and audio player. Being an open source software, FrostWire includes no spyware and no adware. Guaranteed!

It is inspired by the well known LimeWire application and has been designed from the ground up to support search inside cloud and .torrent files, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) service, playback of audio and video files using the MPlayer software, as well as local file sharing and streaming via Wi-Fi/HTTP.

In addition, the program allows users to send downloaded audio files to the iTunes music player application in order to play them. Also, the integrated video player component will let you to playback downloaded video files.

What’s new in FrostWire 6.0.8:
  • Significant improvements in search result availability.
  • Faster Bitsnoop, Extratorrent and KAT individual file search results.
  • Reduced use of DHT network for search.
  • Faster torrent download start time.
  • Fixes download error on some Archive.org search results.
  • Fixes Yify search.
  • Misc fixes in Library functionality.
  • Crash fixes.

FrostWire 6.0.8 is out, Available for Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS, OpenSUSE and Mac OSX

open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ wget -c http://dl9.frostwire.com/frostwire/6.0.8/frostwire-6.0.8.amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i frostwire-6.0.8.amd64.deb
$ sudo rm -rf frostwire-6.0.8.amd64.deb

Download RPM File and DMG (Mac OSX)

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

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