Pelican is the client tool to download or upload files on the Open Science Data Federation.
Pelican expects failure. It retries connections, attempts to download from multiple caches, and downloads through different methods.
Pelican is compiled for many platforms and packaging managers. It supports Linux, Mac, Windows OS. It also has packages for Debian, RPMs, and Alpine.
Pelican is a statically compiled binary. The same executable can run on multiple version of Linux.