Filezilla

Installing Filezilla

This guide if primarily for Ubuntu users and shows how to install the latest version of FileZilla which is not available through the Synaptic Package manager. 1. Download the latest version of FileZilla from the website. 2. Open a terminal and change directory to where you have downloaded the file from FileZilla, then run the following commands:  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: Open a terminal and run the following command: sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/filezilla.desktop Add the following text: [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 You will now be able to launch FileZilla from the start menu, click Applications → Internet → FileZilla.