GetTSO

GetTSO is a bash command-line tool that allows users of Unix-like operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X, etc.) to download The Sims Online through the official trial link from EA by replicating the behavior of EA's Windows-only downloader.

The tool uses wget to retrieve the game files via ftp and validates their checksums with the ones listed in the downloaded manifest.txt file. After all files have been downloaded and verified, the contents are extracted with cabextract into the desired directory and the cab files are deleted.

This tool depends on the following packages:
 * bash
 * wget
 * coreutils (for md5sum)
 * xdg-utils (for xdg-open)
 * cabextract (1.4+ required; check your system's version in advance)