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How can I upgrade filezilla to the current version?
NOTE: The newest precompiled version of Filezilla is now 3.49.1 which was built for Debian 10.0 (Buster). If you are running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or older, the libc6 library does not contain GLIBC 2.28 ...
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Filezilla or WinSCP alternative for Ubuntu
Using Nautilus
You can use the option Connect to Server in Nautilus as it is shown on the next image.
If you need to find the command-line path to the mounted directory use one of the approaches ...
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Cannot start FileZilla
You can reset FileZilla to defaults by making sure that all copies of FileZilla are definitely closed and then running the following command:
mv -v /home/superuser/.config/filezilla/ /home/superuser/....
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Setting default application to open files through FileZilla?
Write in the terminal : dpkg -L sublime-text to check the sublime current location.
And then try to find something like this : /usr/bin/subl
Now you just need to go to - edit - settings - Filetype ...
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Filezilla crashes ubuntu 16.04 lts- Please suggest alternate
I use the basic ssh and sftp because I learned how to use them long ago, and I find them easy to use.
But you may find it easier to use the standard file browser 'Files' alias nautilus in standard ...
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How to download files with a specific extension only from an FTP server?
wget supports recursive download and accept lists which should cover this use case.
wget -r -np -A "*.torrent" ftp://ftp.fau.de/gimp/gimp/
The file-extension should be specified.
The command will ...
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Cannot open a zip file with Archive Manager
The first things I would check would be:
Are any errors visible during the file transfer from the ISP? If I understand correctly, the file has zero bytes after the archive is later uploaded to a ...
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FILEZILLA not working after upgrade from ubuntu 15.10 to ubuntu 16.04
Problem with version 3.15 but solved in 3.20.
Backup your config files, they can be located in ~/.config/filezilla or ~/.filezilla
Download the latest FileZilla version from here
Run:
tar -xvf ...
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Cannot start FileZilla
I had the exact same issue. I presumed there was an issue with the filezilla.xml file. I went to /home/$USER/.config/Filezilla/ deleted the old filezilla.xml file.
Then went back into the terminal ...
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16.04: Filezilla crashes when performing any remote action
I had set up the "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" repo. Then I installed Filezilla. On 03/27/2018 that gave me Filezilla 3.21. I was using sFTP. It crashed every second ...
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Setting default application to open files through FileZilla?
If you installed sublime-text via snap on Ubuntu 18.04 you can use
/snap/bin/sublime-text.subl
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Cannot start FileZilla
Go to ~/.config/Filezilla or ~/.filezilla.
You need to press Ctrl+H to show hidden files if necessary.
Then open filezilla.xml using a text editor.
Remove the Last local directory tag.
Save the ...
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Cannot connect to server using filezilla with portnumber
As your error log says:
Error: Cannot establish FTP connection to an SFTP server. Please select proper protocol.
SFTP and FTP are different protocols!
SFTP uses an SSH connection in the background....
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How to convert Filezilla PPK to openssh sftp compatible key
Thanks to the comment from Spas Spasov (@pa4080) I did get it going.
This is what I did.
matthewh@xen:~/.ssh$ puttygen
The program 'puttygen' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:...
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Cannot start FileZilla
TL;DR:
In filezilla.xml there is the empty element <Setting name="Language Code" type="string" />. If you add an installed locale such as en_GB.UTF-8 (use locale -a to find ...
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Cannot start FileZilla
In addition to andrew.46 answer, you can now import the old sitemanager.xml file in the backup folder once filezilla opens. Use File->Import menu. This is useful if you had a lot of sites saved.
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FILEZILLA not working after upgrade from ubuntu 15.10 to ubuntu 16.04
As per the comment from Nick Weinberg I removed the .filezilla directory within the home directory and it now works ("sudo rm -rf .filezilla")
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Can't install Filezilla "filezilla: Depends: filezilla-common (= 3.25.1-1~getdeb1) but 3.25.1-1~getdeb1 is to be installed"
It's difficult to write a good answer because I don't know how badly you have messed up your system. But, the goal is to get rid of the getdeb ppa you have added, and install Filezilla from the ...
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Use Filezilla as file manager
FileZilla is only an FTP / SFTP client. It does not have the capability to be a File Manager like Double Commander can do.
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ubuntu 18.10 - filezilla GnuTLS
It was identified as a bug in Filezilla 3.33.0 the day after Ubuntu 18.10 was released.
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/filezilla/+bug/1798767
Apparently it was to be fixed in ...
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Setting default application to open files through FileZilla?
as per direction given in set default editor for filezilla in ubuntu 16.04 , you can modify for default editor.
You have to change the preference as for the executable file exist in /usr/bin/$PATH ...
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How to update FileZilla on Ubuntu?
The easiest way is to use the official flathub version, it will be updated automatically: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.filezillaproject.Filezilla
Install it from the command line:
flatpak ...
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FILEZILLA not working after upgrade from ubuntu 15.10 to ubuntu 16.04
Removing the .filezilla directory works temporarily. The problem comes back after a few uses. Removing the directory is necessary each time it reoccurs.
FYI, the second time I had this issue there ...
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Missing file icons in FileZilla
It is intended and has been for a while (2010).
The themes you can pick in Filezilla itself do not work too. It is because of all the different methods different Linux systems use.
From the link:
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tar -xvzf [filename] creates an extra directory
It happens presumably because you tarred the whole public_html directory and its name is in the archive.
You can use the --strip-components argument to cut off the head of the path when extracting.
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How install the latest FileZilla from its official site?
If Filezilla is only for your own use, then create a bin directory in your /home folder, drop the extracted Filezilla folder into ~/bin, and ~/bin is already in your path, so you should be able to run ...
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Issues with Installing libgnutls30 (>= 3.5.3)
You seem to be running a mix of repositories for Xenial (16.04) and Yakkety (16.10). In particular, your system wants to install version 3.4.10 of libgnutls30, which is from the Xenial archives, but ...
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Can't install Filezilla "filezilla: Depends: filezilla-common (= 3.25.1-1~getdeb1) but 3.25.1-1~getdeb1 is to be installed"
A command line centric method. The rm command assumes that /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list is the only source of the offending package list. Depending on the state of your system apt-get install --...
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TLS encryption does not work with FileZilla 3.33.0
A similar issue is solved with newer versions of FileZilla. And luckily they fix my issue as well.
Unfortunately at the moment the version 3.33.0 seems to be the newest version available as a Debian ...
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Filezilla start after 25 seconds delay
The solution here : "sudo apt install appmenu-gtk2-module" and reboot.
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