I Miss FileZilla

[BlueSun]

I've been using gFTP to upload pages to my remote webserver. I really hate it. It just seems clunky and slow compared to what I'm used to from my MS days: FileZilla. Maybe I'm ignorant. What else is out there? There has to be a better way. Somebody educate me, please.

[Lord Illidan]

Try getting FileZilla for Linux here : http://filezilla-project.org/nightly.php

[Bizmac]

I was a user of Filezilla, if you are using Kubuntu, might be not the case, you can use Konqueror, really easy to use for your ftp transfer with the two panes.

[aysiu]

You can also install Windows' FileZilla using Wine.

The native Linux FileZilla Beta isn't too bad, though.

[JeffS]

My work is a mostly Windows shop, and I'm the web developer (among many other things). I use FileZilla all the time, and I love it. One would have thought that since it has the word "zilla" in it, it would have been affiliated with Mozilla, and be fully cross platform. But that does not seem to be the case, other than the links posted (I'll have to give that a try).

[Rhubarb]

If you're having problems with the windows version of filezilla with wine, then try Portable Filezilla with wine:-
http://portableapps.com/apps/interne...zilla_portable

I've tested it out in Edgy with wine, it seems to work fine here for me.

Aside, here's some *zilla info:-
Filezilla is certainly not affiliated with Mozilla.
The only *zilla project I can find by Mozilla would be Bugzilla.
There's a few other *zilla's out there in the open source world too, like Gozilla.

[motin]

I too have missed FileZilla for a very long time. Since some months ago I've been using FileZilla over WINE though which has been really buggy and unstable but still better than everything else I have tested so far! (Kftpgrabber is a decent alternative though)

The upside to the story is that FileZilla version 3 (soon to be released) is multi-platform and has a native Linux port!

Installation-instructions for Dapper Drake are found here: http://kaisman.free.fr/dotclear/inde...ller-filezilla

Or you can download the .deb files (filezilla and filezilla-common) from: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/d...i386&type=main and http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/d...=all&type=main respectively.

I am trying out the first alternative as I am writing. I'll be back to report in case it didn't turn out well.

[motin]

Here are my experiences:

First method "works", but you have to change the repository that the french site's instructions recommend to it's mirror: deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb dapper 3v1n0

AND you will only install version 2.9.4 from CVS dated 2006-06-28.

Sadly, the Beta-version of FileZilla 3 found on debian.org unstable requires a later version of libc6 - a package I'd bet is best to leave as it is and not try to manually force an update via other deb-files etc.

I guess Edgy Eft has the updated package though... But the update process to Edgy broke my computer (totally - needed to restore from barebone backup) last time so I'll have to do with an upgraded FileZilla Portable (2.2.29 upgraded from 2.2.24) running over Wine I guess and hope it is not as buggy as the last one...

I miss FileZilla too...

[tbroderick]

How about lftp?

[motin]

You can also download the Beta 3 .tar.bz2 archive from filezilla.com, extract it and run bin/filezilla - no installation required - and I guess it is better than the 2.9.4-version.

Still i found some slight problems:

1. Uploading doesn't work
2. Everything else seems buggy and broken...