

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 which is now required by the precompiled version of Filezilla 3.49.1. Congratulations You have successfully installed FileZilla. Ubuntu 18.10 and newer contain the newer libc6 and are not affected by this. We can use the GUI icon to start FileZilla in our system or use the below command on the terminal: filezilla. I removed the section below that contained how to replace your installation with the precompiled version since it really is outdated now. Both client and server support FTPS and FTP, while the client could in inclusion connect to the servers of SFTP.

It is probably best to remove any version that was installed with apt since it might try to "upgrade" back to the older version.īuild and install Filezilla 3.49.1 from source: It is recommended to install Filezilla from source or through the apt-get install method (which will be an older version). Filezilla is an open-source and free, cross-platform application of FTP, consisting of Filezilla server and Filezilla client.Clients are present for macOS, Linux, and Windows, Servers are present only for Windows. Older than 20.04: sudo apt install build-essential cmake wx-common libpugixml-dev libsqlite3-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev nettle-dev gnutls-bin libgnutls28-dev libunistring-devįor 20.04: sudo apt install build-essential cmake wx-common libpugixml-dev libsqlite3-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev nettle-dev gnutls-bin libgnutls28-dev libunistring-dev libdbus-1-dev libgtk-3-dev Install the prerequisites for installing from source: You will need to update to libnettle 3.4.1: cd /tmpĪlso need to update gnutls to version 3.6.13: cd /tmpĭownload pugixml and build from source: cd /tmpĭownload libfilezilla-0.23.0 that is needed from here. Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.Ģ.Also, only libfilezilla-0.19.0 is available in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS repositories.Ĭopy the file to /tmp then extract, build and install: cd /tmp NOTE: Only libfilezilla-0.11.0 is available in the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS repositories. When terminal opens, run command to add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sicklylife/filezilla Thanks to sicklylife, a member of Gnome Japanese Translation Team, who maintains an unofficial PPA contains most recent FileZilla packages.ġ.) Open terminal either from system application menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. To install FileZilla 3.48.1 via PPA in Ubuntu 20.04: The latest FileZilla client so far is v3.48.1 which contains bugfixes and minor changes. For those prefer installing FileZilla ftp client via deb rather than using the flatpak package, there’s an unofficial PPA contains the latest FileZilla 3.48.1 for Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint 20.
