HOW TO INSTALL GFTP FREE FTP CLIENT IN UBUNTU 16.04
HOW TO INSTALL GFTP FREE FTP CLIENT IN UBUNTU 16.04
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install GFTP free FTP client in Ubuntu 16.04. GFTP is a open source free FTP client application like Filezilla used to access FTP Servers. GFTP was initially developed by Brian Masney using C programming language and released under GPL license. It supports both FTP & SFTP (FTP Secure) version of protocols and also supports other protocols i.e. SSH (Secure Shell), HTTPS, HTTP…etc.. GFTP free FTP client is a light weight application supports almost all languages. It’s an cross platform application available for major operating systems i.e. Linux, Unix, MacOS, Novell, Microsoft Windows. For more information on GFTP application you can visit the official website Here!
Follow the below steps to install GFTP free FTP client in Ubuntu 16.04
Before start the installation of GFTP free FTP client let’s update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alessandro-strada/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/noobslab/apps/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Now we are ready to install GFTP free FTP client application. We don’t have to install any 3rd party PPA repository to install GFTP as it’s an part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So follow the below command to install the same.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gftp # Install GFTP FTP Client Package Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: gftp-common gftp-gtk gftp-text The following NEW packages will be installed: gftp gftp-common gftp-gtk gftp-text 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 231 not upgraded. Need to get 636 kB of archives. After this operation, 4,035 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y ---> Enter "y" to continue the installation Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 gftp-common amd64 2.0.19-4ubuntu2 [409 kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 gftp-gtk amd64 2.0.19-4ubuntu2 [149 kB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 gftp-text amd64 2.0.19-4ubuntu2 [75.9 kB] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 gftp all 2.0.19-4ubuntu2 [1,846 B] Fetched 636 kB in 2s (269 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package gftp-common. (Reading database ... 210061 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../gftp-common_2.0.19-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gftp-common (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ... Selecting previously unselected package gftp-gtk. Preparing to unpack .../gftp-gtk_2.0.19-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gftp-gtk (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ... Selecting previously unselected package gftp-text. Preparing to unpack .../gftp-text_2.0.19-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gftp-text (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ... Selecting previously unselected package gftp. Preparing to unpack .../gftp_2.0.19-4ubuntu2_all.deb ... Unpacking gftp (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ... Setting up gftp-common (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ... Setting up gftp-gtk (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ... Setting up gftp-text (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ... Setting up gftp (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ...
As you can see above we have successfully installed the GFTP free FTP client package. To confirm the same use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l gftp # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii gftp 2.0.19-4ubuntu2 all X/GTK+ and console FTP client (metapackage)
Now to open the application just type the command gftp on shell prompt. Refer the command below.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ gftp # Open the GFTP FTP client application
GFTP FREE FTP CLIENT
GFTP FTP CLIENT PACKAGE VERSION :
GFTP PACKAGE VERSION
You can also open the GFTP free FTP client application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN GFTP FTP CLIENT GRAPHICALLY
To uninstall the GFTP application use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r gftp # Uninstall the application
(Reading database ... 210184 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gftp (2.0.19-4ubuntu2) ...
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