How To Install filezilla on Debian 10

Learn how to install filezilla on Debian 10 with this tutorial. filezilla is Full-featured graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install filezilla on Debian 10.

What is filezilla

filezilla is:

FileZilla is a full-featured FTP client with an easy-to-use GUI.

It is written in C++ and uses the wxWidgets library.

FileZilla includes the following features:

  • 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

There are three methods to install filezilla on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install filezilla Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install filezilla using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install filezilla

Install filezilla Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install filezilla using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install filezilla

Install filezilla Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install filezilla using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install filezilla

How To Uninstall filezilla on Debian 10

To uninstall only the filezilla package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove filezilla

Uninstall filezilla And Its Dependencies

To uninstall filezilla and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove filezilla

Remove filezilla Configurations and Data

To remove filezilla configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge filezilla

Remove filezilla configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove filezilla configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge filezilla

Dependencies

filezilla have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install filezilla package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.