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gftp alternative?

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:04 pm
by xdv

is there an alternative to gftp?
(xenialpup)


Re: gftp alternative?

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:37 pm
by bigpup

What exactly do you want to do?

Are you using Xenialpup 32bit or 64bit?


Re: gftp alternative?

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2023 1:38 pm
by mikeslr

Ditto what bigpup asked.

You can probably find an old version of filezilla. In my Xenial64 folder on storage I have a 64-bit version and there's one in my 32-bit portable folder which IIRC worked with filezilla. It's likely I assembled both, hunting down any missing libraries. Except for liking filezilla's GUI more, I think gftp worked just as well.

There is another nifty application. But it only works to transfer files between computers on your network. It's called dukto. I think there are others, similar. So knowing your objective will help narrow our responses.


Re: gftp alternative?

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2023 4:29 pm
by xdv

Xenialpup 32bit


Re: gftp alternative?

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2023 6:14 pm
by OscarTalks

I do have this one if you want to try it:-
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/fileZilla-3.7.3.pet
Rather old, but Xenial is a few years old now.
I have had it for ages and it runs well in Precise or Wheezy Pup
I found that later versions showed warnings in terminal, this one does not.
Did a quick test in Xenial32 and it started with no errors, didn't try to use it though.
This is a 32bit version


Re: gftp alternative?

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2023 6:38 pm
by mikeslr

Hope oscartalk's pet is satisfactory. There are old 32bit versions here, https://www.fosshub.com/FileZilla-old.html. But the one's I tried under xenialpup32 wouldn't start (nor would the one in my 32-bit portable folder). Some complained about needed newer glibc (can't easily be done). Older ones complained about missing libpng16.

a dukto, 32-bit, deb can still be found here, https://code.google.com/archive/p/dukto/downloads: only useful for transfering within your network.