FileZilla Installation with Terminal

In this guide, we’ll walk through the process of installing FileZilla on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) and explore how to utilize FileZilla for seamless file transfers between your local system and a remote system.

FileZilla is a freely available and open-source FTP client compatible with both Windows and Linux operating systems. It serves as a robust client for various protocols including plain FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS), and the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

Key Features include:

• Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
• IPv6 support
• Available in more than 40 languages
• Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
• Easy to use Site Manager and transfer queue
• Bookmarks
• Drag & drop support
• Speed limits
• Filename filters
• Directory comparison
• Network configuration wizard
• Remote file editing
• Keep-alive
• HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP Proxy support
• Logging to file
• Synchronized directory browsing
• Remote file search
• Tabbed interface to connect to multiple servers

Install FileZilla on Ubuntu 22.04

Filezilla client can be installed either via command line or GUI. In this tutorial, we will cover both methods.  So, let’s jump into the installation steps,

FileZilla Installation via command Line

We are assuming your system have stable internet connection because apt command would be downloading FileZilla package from repositories. Filezilla package and its dependencies are available in the default package repositories.

Open the terminal and run following commands,

$ sudo apt update 
$ sudo apt install -y filezilla

Above commands will install filezilla on your ubuntu system.To verify the installation and filezilla version, execute following commands

$ sudo apt list --installed | grep filezilla 
$ filezilla --version

How to remove/uninstall filezilla

sudo apt-get purge filezilla
sudo apt-get autoremove
rm -fr ~/.config/filezilla