Installing FileZilla 3.0.1 on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

September 24th, 2007 · Posted by Toor · 5 Comments

FileZilla is a cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client. It not only is easy to use, but it also contains lots of useful features. This short article shows how you can install the latest version of FileZilla on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

1. The latest version of FileZilla is 3.0.1. You can get it from here.

2. Run these command in terminal:
sudo tar jxvf FileZilla_3.0.1_i586-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 -C /opt/ sudo chown -R root:root /opt/FileZilla3/ sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/FileZilla3/

3. Create a menu item:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/filezilla.desktop

Add the following:
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=FileZilla Comment=FTP Client Exec=/opt/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla Icon=/opt/FileZilla3/share/pixmaps/filezilla.png Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Application;Network; StartupNotify=true

To launch FileZilla, click Applications → Internet → FileZilla.

FileZilla screenshot

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Tags: Ubuntu · How-Tos

5 responses so far ↓

1 Redhat // Oct 13, 2007 at 7:39 am

Quick and accurate way to install filezilla.
Worked great on my Ubuntu installation.

Thanks for sharing!
2 flo // Dec 9, 2007 at 2:28 am

it worked on my site only after i changed “sudo tar jxvf …”
to “sudo tar -jxvf …”
3 ubuntu_newbie // Dec 21, 2007 at 2:21 am

thank u for the simple tutorial. it helped.
4 gus pram // Apr 27, 2008 at 8:59 pm

thanks for the simple tutorial. it work….
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