Filezilla is a free and open source FTP client application which available for Windows,Mac and Linux. Currently, Filezilla 3.8.0 is the most recent stable version available for all system. On this tutorial I am going to show you how to install Filezilla 3.8.0 on Elementary OS Luna.
To install Filezilla 3.8.0 on Elementary OS Luna you can follow these instructions:
Download FileZilla 3.8.0 for Linux:
Now extract the file. You can simply right click on the downloaded file and select extract here or use this command:
tar -xjvf FileZilla_3.8.0_x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
or
tar -xjvf FileZilla_3.8.0_i586-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
Both way will produce a new folder called FileZilla3. We need to move this directory to /opt. Use this command to do it
sudo mv FileZilla3 /opt/
Now create a symbolic link
sudo mv /usr/bin/filezilla /usr/bin/filezilla_backup
sudo ln -sf /opt/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla /usr/bin/filezilla
Now Filezilla can be opened by typing this command on Terminal
filezilla
You can then create shortcut or launcher if you want. Thanks for reading this How to install Filezilla 3.8.0 on Elementary OS Luna.
Hello,
thanks for this Information, but the symbolic Link is wrong and not working.
wrong:
sudo ln -sf /opt/FileZilla/bin/filezilla /usr/bin/filezilla
correctly:
sudo ln -sf /opt/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla /usr/bin/filezilla
Best regard from Germany
Joachim
Hi Joachim
Many thanks for the correction. Much appreciate it.
Regards
Fitri