filezilla command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix filezilla command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

filezilla: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: filezilla: command not found

Solutions to filezilla: command not found

How To Fix filezilla: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu filezilla is provided by filezilla package.

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

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install filezilla

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install filezilla.

sudo apt -y install filezilla

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install filezilla

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix filezilla command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.