How to install kftpgrabber on Ubuntu

How to install kftpgrabber on Ubuntu

The Kftpgrabber is a graphical FTP client application for KDE similar to filezilla. It has a support for usable FTP interaction and contains a tree-oriented transfer queue. It also supports SFTP protocol and also has a distributed FTP daemon support. This tutorial covers the installation procedure of kftpgrabber on Ubuntu.

Installation procedure

Before starting the installation procedure, update the target system by executing the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease     
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease      
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease   
Reading package lists... Done

The system is updated with the required repositories. Now install the kftpgrabber and press y to continue with the installation procedure.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install kftpgrabber -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  breeze-icon-theme docbook-xml docbook-xsl fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-extra icoutils kactivities kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data
  kde-data-style-breeze kde-data-style-breeze-qt4 kdebase-runtime kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools kpackagelauncherqml kpackagetool5
  kwayland-data kwayland-integration libattica0.4 libdlrestrictions1 libfam0 libgif7 libkactivities6 libkatepartinterfaces4 libkcmutils4
  libkde3support4 libkdeclarative5 libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 libkdnssd4 libkemoticons4 libkf5activities5 libkf5archive5
  libkf5attica5 libkf5auth-data libkf5auth5
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update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu-distrib/kdesu to provide /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu (kdesu) in auto mode
Setting up kdebase-runtime (4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kftpgrabber (0.8.99~svn1214766-1) ...
Setting up ntrack-module-libnl-0 (016-1.3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3) ...

To open the kftpgrabber application, execute the “ kftpgrabber” command in the terminal or type the package name in the ubuntu dashboard. Click on the icon and run the application.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? The kftpgrabber also contains an integrated SFV checksum verifier.