mdemers883 Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 I've used the cli ftp client via terminal before and used it successfully, but I'm still not 100% comfortable with it yet so I would like to use a gui based one for a bit till I'm comfortable. I'm currently running SuSE 9.0, what would you guys recommend for an easy to use ftp client? Thanks for any help. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 I use gftp, however, nautilus works very well and i expect konqueror can do too. Having ftp access in your filemanager is good as you can just copy and paste between your local computer and webserver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 I also use gFTP because it came with both MDK and Fedora, easy and works great I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 gFTP is really simple to use and does everything I've needed it to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemers883 Posted February 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 thanks for the input guys, looks like gFTP is going to be the way to go :D Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neutro Posted February 2, 2004 Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 If you use konqueror, the simplest is probably to use it for ftp transfer by typing "ftp://username@servername" in the URL bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemers883 Posted February 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 If you use konqueror, the simplest is probably to use it for ftp transfer by typing "ftp://username@servername" in the URL bar. I did that as well, worked rather well :D Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemers883 Posted February 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 Ok, I downloaded gFTP (tar) and extracted it. Inside the folder it made I did: ./configure make make install everything seemed to go just fine, but now how do I launch it? Thanks for any help you can give. Here is the list of files in that dir: linux:/home/luser/gftp-2.0.16 # ls . config.guess COPYING Makefile src .. config.h debian Makefile.am stamp-h ABOUT-NLS config.h.in docs Makefile.in stamp-h.in acinclude.m4 config.log gftp.spec missing THANKS aclocal.m4 config.rpath gftp.spec.in mkinstalldirs TODO AUTHORS config.status INSTALL NEWS ChangeLog config.sub install-sh po ChangeLog-old configure intl README config.cache configure.in lib README.html What you think? Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted February 2, 2004 Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 type gftp in a terminal and press enter? you did make install as root right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemers883 Posted February 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 type gftp in a terminal and press enter?you did make install as root right? Yes, I installed as root, I also tried typing "gftp" in terminal and it didn't work that's why I was a bit confused. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 2, 2004 Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 why not an rpm? ..from the cd's?....through YaST? ...or even a suse9 mirror? They work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemers883 Posted February 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 why not an rpm? ..from the cd's?....through YaST? ...or even a suse9 mirror? They work! :lol: I'm still getting used to how things work. I'm slowly but surely finding out that I can find almost anything I need via yast :D I suppose I could do rpm's, I have more experience with tar's so that's why I went that route. Do you feel that a rpm would've been a better choice, if so why? If it is a better/easier way to go I'll definately start using rpm's when possible. As far as disc's go, I installed suse via FTP so I have the ftp boot disc, the only other suse disc I have besides that is the SuSE 9.0 Live CD. Could I use one of those? thanks for any help. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted February 3, 2004 Report Share Posted February 3, 2004 I have never managed to get a tar.gz to work...haha...I think I figured it out though on my last attempt...but the prog was messed up :-S RPMs are sooo much easier :-P as for the ftp thing...I use gftp too... my ftp server says it doesn't work with all ftp progs and stuff...only gives 4 that'll work...I emailed them about linux...they simply sent back 'We do not support Linux.' ...but by that time I figured it out...I use web1000.com, and though ftp.web1000.com (which ur supposed to type) doesn't work, I found a thing in the FAQ saying that if it ran slow, try ftp1.web1000.com - ftp9.web1000.com ...so I tried one of those and I've had no probs since... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemers883 Posted February 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2004 I have never managed to get a tar.gz to work...haha...I think I figured it out though on my last attempt...but the prog was messed up :-SRPMs are sooo much easier :-P looks like I should start using rpm's from now on :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 3, 2004 Report Share Posted February 3, 2004 yeah, rpm's are much easier. You're also on an rpm-based distro and things are diff. Usually not a prob but rpm's made for you distro will include stuff for the distro like menu entries and knowlegde that the app/version is even installed so not to mess up stuff. If you have to do a tarball check out checkinstall. It'll make and install a rpm from a tarball eliminating these probs and making it easy to remove. To put it simply, if you try a pkg on a suse cd and it works, great...it's easier, if not, try a suse mirror. Dependencies for gftp shouldn't be too bad. If you have the temporary hd space or want ot try to go straight to a cd, consider wget. It's a terminal downloader. wget -r <url> will get every, I mean recurse through directories and get everything at that url. wget -r --level=2 <url> will only download that current directory and recurse to one other. SEE: wget --help or man wget Then you'll have everything available for the distro version on cd :D Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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