FileZilla for Linux?

  • Can anyone recommend an FTP client for Linux? I’ve tried FTP’ing thru Konqueror, Opera and the command line, but none of these make me feel warm and fuzzy like Filezilla. Ironically for an open-source program though, FZ only runs on Windows…

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  • You can run FileZilla through WINE (I did). Works decently, but can run into some problems from time to time.

    I use gFTP that comes with the GNOME suite. I am sure it is available as a standalone package. You can also use Midnight Commander (mc) as an FTP client if you want something console based that is a step above command line.
    Also Nautilus (GNOME) should open FTP links and you can drag/drop files from window to window.

    Thread Starter eric

    (@eric)

    Cheers guys, I’ll download and try gftp when I get some time on my Linux box. I’m using Suse and KDE desktop, not Gnome, don’t know if that was the best choice but I had to start somewhere…
    I’d like to stay away from Wine if I can cos it kind of beats the whole point for me. Besides, I’ll still have WinXP on my other machine until either OpenOffice becomes 100% perfect at exporting to MS Office formats, or everyone I’ll ever work for switches to OpenOffice. So I can always run FileZilla on that. Thanks again.

    Surely there are hatfuls of ftp clients in SuSe?

    Thread Starter eric

    (@eric)

    There might be lots of stuff in Suse that I haven’t discovered yet! If you know of one, could you let me know where to look? cheers.

    opera is a browser not a ftp client.

    Thread Starter eric

    (@eric)

    @sushubh: do you know it was your propaganda here that got me to finally try opera as a browser/email/newsreader in the first place? If you ever apply for a marketing job in Norway i’ll write you a reference ?? Yeah I know it’s not meant for ftp but I just tried it anyway because it’s good at all the other stuff. It does work, just not really convenient. Perhaps that would be a suggestion for their roadmap?

    $ ftp open

    @eric: good to know opera came out good for you ?? its ftp browser is pretty decent ?? it dont upload coz its not an explorer shell like IE is ??

    Well MC Midnight Commander (already recommended above) would be my linux choice. As a file manager MC is awesome anyway so why not use the same tool. Some folks mind find it a bit geeky but that is linux.

    Thread Starter eric

    (@eric)

    wah, so may tools, so little time! i’ll report back when i get a chance to try them.

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