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Postby golinux » Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:02 am

Has anybody on the Refracta team compiled gftp for Devuan Jessie? Seems it didn't make the freeze but could be forward-ported from wheezy or backported from stretch. I so want to keep using it so I can just drop in my current configuration and be up and running . . .
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Re: gftp

Postby fsmithred » Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:26 pm

You can install the version from wheezy. That's what in my jessie-sysv build and in dzz's xfce build.
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/gftp

Download the deb for gftp.
Use the links on that page to get the arch-specific debs (i386 or amd64) for the following:
gftp-gtk gftp-text gftp-common

Install them all with dpkg.
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Re: gftp

Postby golinux » Wed Nov 25, 2015 2:06 pm

Thanks! I thought of doing that but didn't want to break anything. You know the 'don't mix repos' thing . . . :)
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Re: gftp

Postby fsmithred » Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:57 pm

Mixing repos tends to work a little better if you're adding an old package to a newer system. Any dependencies are likely to be newer versions than needed. It still might not work, but it's not likely to break the system. And before I posted, I tested it by installing the debs into a running live jessie-sysv (a fully updated one that uses devuan repos and will soon be available for others to play with.) I also started gftp without getting any errors, but I didn't actually use it for anything.

Going the other way, you may need to upgrade a bunch of stuff to make a newer package work on an older system, and that can break the system.
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Re: gftp

Postby golinux » Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:37 pm

Whoopee! Seems to be working just fine, Thanks. :)
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Re: gftp

Postby dzz » Wed Nov 25, 2015 8:06 pm

Same gftp version in wheezy stretch and sid: https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw ... ection=all

Konqueror (TDE) is the only decent (and much better) alternative I know but you might not want it's baggage.
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Re: gftp

Postby nadir » Thu Nov 26, 2015 1:11 am

dzz wrote:Konqueror (TDE) is the only decent (and much better) alternative I know but you might not want it's baggage.

filezilla? Seems to do what needs to be done.
Doesn't all modern filebrowsers do it?

I for one would use a cli solution.
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Re: gftp

Postby fsmithred » Thu Nov 26, 2015 2:01 pm

I've used filezilla in the past, and it works fine. It does want to pull in more than gftp (35MB vs. 4MB), so it's not a great choice for the live-CD. A graphical app for ftp is really helpful if you have ftp sites to manage (or web sites with ftp access) and you have to move more than the occasional file up and down.
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Re: gftp

Postby nadir » Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:42 pm

Sure, ftp isn't very comfortable. Probably in that case a gui solution is what i would prefer.
The few sites i ran into offered ssh (though i can't remember if i could use sshfs).
I seem to recall ftp was said to be "unsecure", but i guess these days we got bigger security concerns than ftp ... :-)

PS:: above i should have written "i guess i would use cli - if possible".
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