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How To Install Gftp On Linux Mint 18.03

To Install Gftp on Linux mint 18.03

GFTP is a free/open source multithreaded File Transfer Protocol client program. It is most used on Unix-like systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X and Sony PlayStation 3. It includes both a graphical user interface, which utilizes the GTK+ graphical toolkit and a command-line interface. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Gftp on linuxmint-18.03.

Installation.

Let's first start with updating the system repositories

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                               
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                     
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                     
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                                       
Ign:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                                  
Hit:6 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                            
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                                     
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial InRelease                       
Hit:9 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                            
Reading package lists... Done

Install the Gftp application.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install gftp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gftp
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 461 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,846 B of archives.
After this operation, 33.8 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package gftp.
(Reading database ... 239154 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gftp_2.0.19-4ubuntu2_all.deb ...
Unpacking gftp (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ...
Setting up gftp (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ...

Once Installation is done you can access the Gftp application from the Menu as shown here mint_menu

Now, you can able to use the Gftp application. Gftp_application

The version of Gftp. version With this, the method to install Gftp on Linuxmint-18.03 comes to an end.

Tag : gFTP
FAQ
Q
When gFTP tries to get the remote directory listing?
A
Go under FTP->Options->FTP and turn off passive file transfers. Instead of sending the PASV command to open up the data connection on the server side, the data connection will be opened up on the client side, and the PORT command will be sent to the server instead.
Q
How can I increase the size of the fonts in gFTP?
A
You can use the gnome-font-properties program to change the fonts used by all GTK+ 2.x applications.
Q
Where does gFTP store it's options?
A
gFTP will automatically create a ~/.gftp directory when it is first to run. Your config file is ~/.gftp/gftprc, and this is where all of gFTP's settings are stored. The config file is well commented, so take a glance at it and see if there is anything you want to change. Your bookmarks are stored in the file ~/.gftp/bookmarks.

Every time gFTP is run, it will log the contents of the log window to ~/.gftp/gftp.log. The contents of this file will be automatically purged this file when gFTP is started up.
Q
How do I force running the text or gtk+ version of gFTP?
A
To run the text port, you can type gftp-text or to run the gtk+ port, you can run the gftp-gtk. The gftp command is just a shell script that checks if your DISPLAY variable is set, and if so it'll run the appropriate version.
Q
What systems is gFTP known to run on?
A
I develop gFTP on a Debian GNU/Linux machine. It should run under any other Linux distributions. Here is a list of other platforms I have received successful compile reports:

FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/BSDI

Solaris

IRIX

Digital UNIX

HP/UX 11