ftpls command not found

Introduction

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

ftpls: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ftpls: command not found

Solutions to ftpls: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ftpls is provided by ftpcopy package.

ftpcopy is:

ftpcopy is a simple FTP client written to copy files or directories (recursively) from an FTP server. It was written to mirror FTP sites which support the EPLF directory listing format, but it also supports the traditional listing format (/bin/ls).

ftpls is an FTP client which generates directory listings, either in plain text or HTML.

The tools only support passive mode FTP. There is no plan to support active mode.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ftpcopy

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

You can also use apt command to install ftpcopy.

sudo apt -y install ftpcopy

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

sudo aptitude install ftpcopy

Summary

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