If you are an administrator for a website, there are few most used FTP clients available on the internet. Filezilla is one of them. Filezilla is the linux port for the famous FTP client for Windows. It’s fast and reliable graphical FTP client with lots of useful features and intuitive interface.
Installation
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install filezilla
[sudo] password for taufanlubis:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
filezilla-common libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0
Recommended packages:
filezilla-locales
The following NEW packages will be installed:
filezilla filezilla-common libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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After unpacking 15.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.4.0-0ubuntu3 [636kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe libwxgtk2.8-0 2.8.4.0-0ubuntu3 [3502kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe filezilla-common 3.0.0-0ubuntu1 [150kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe filezilla 3.0.0-0ubuntu1 [847kB]
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taufanlubis@toshiba:~$
How to run?
Open Application > Internet > Filezilla.
To use this tool, I assume that you have basic knowledge with ftp client program.
As you can see from the my screen below, there few sections.
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On the top is the command line and response from the destination server.
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Left top is your local directories and Right Top is remote site directories.
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Left lower section is your local files and Right lower section is remote site files.
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The bottom section is file transfer status.
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You can drag from local to remote site or from remote site to your local directories.
