How To Install filezilla on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install filezilla
on Kali Linux.
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 Kali Linux. 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.
After updating apt database, We can install filezilla
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install filezilla Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install filezilla
using apt
by running the following command:
Install filezilla Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install filezilla
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall filezilla on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the filezilla
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall filezilla And Its Dependencies
To uninstall filezilla
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove filezilla Configurations and Data
To remove filezilla
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
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:
Dependencies
filezilla have the following dependencies:
- filezilla-common
- libc6
- libdbus-1-3
- libfilezilla11
- libgcc-s1
- libgtk-3-0
- libnettle8
- libpugixml1v5
- libsqlite3-0
- libstdc++6
- libwxbase3.0-0v5
- libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install filezilla
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.