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Let me show how to install FileZilla on Linux and then use it for file transfer.

It supports transferring file using FTP over TLS or SSL (FTPS) and also FTP over SSH (SFTP) along with old FTP protocol. Thankfully, there are some GUI tools available that let you transfer files to or from the remote servers.įileZilla is a popular, cross-platform, open-source tool for this purpose. However, those are command line methods and not everyone feels comfortable. Sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/filezilla.If you ask the geeky sysadmins, they will swear by rsync or scp commands for transferring files between remote server and local system. Sudo desktop-file-edit -set-icon="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/filezilla.svg" /usr/share/applications/sktop #Change the icon of filezilla to avoid missing icons Sudo cp -a /opt/FileZilla3/share/icons/hicolor/* /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ #Copy all filezilla provided icons to the /usr/share/icons/ Sudo cp /opt/FileZilla3/share/applications/sktop /usr/share/applications/ #Copy the sktop file to /usr/share/applications/ to enable us bookmark filezilla (add it to Ubuntu dock) Sudo ln -s /opt/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla /usr/local/bin/filezilla | sed -e 's/^

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# Here we make the assumption that the provided link will be a link to a linux tarball because we provide a linux user-agent to WGET

filezilla-installer.sh #Get the download link of the file. Personally, I use this script on my laptop whenever a new version of FileZilla is released!Ĭopy the code below into a file and save it as filezilla-installer.sh, using the command line make it executable chmod +x filezilla-installer.sh.Finally, execute the file. This script automatically pulls the latest version of FileZilla tarball from Filezilla project website and installs it on your Ubuntu machine 🙂 Today in this blog post, I present a fully automated bash script based on my earlier script. Almost five years ago, I wrote this blog post Making an installer/updater for Filezilla on Ubuntu Linux