Almost five years ago, I wrote this blog post Making an installer/updater for Filezilla on Ubuntu Linux
Today in this blog post, I present a fully automated bash script based on my earlier script. This script automatically pulls the latest version of FileZilla tarball from Filezilla project website and installs it on your Ubuntu machine 🙂
Personally, I use this script on my laptop whenever a new version of FileZilla is released!
Copy the code below into a file and save it as filezilla-installer.sh
, using the command line make it executable chmod +x filezilla-installer.sh
.Finally, execute the file ./filezilla-installer.sh
#Get the download link of the file. # Here we make the assumption that the provided link will be a link to a linux tarball because we provide a linux user-agent to WGET DNLD_LINK=//i') #Download using wget wget -O filezilla "$DNLD_LINK" #Uncompress the file tar xvf filezilla #Check if the dir already exists if [ -d "/opt/FileZilla3" ] then sudo rm -r /opt/FileZilla3 fi #Move the folder to /opt/ sudo mv -v FileZilla3/ /opt/ #Check if the symlink already exists if [ -e /usr/local/bin/filezilla ] then sudo rm /usr/local/bin/filezilla fi #Create a new symlink sudo ln -s /opt/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla /usr/local/bin/filezilla #Copy the filezilla.desktop file to /usr/share/applications/ to enable us bookmark filezilla (add it to Ubuntu dock) sudo cp /opt/FileZilla3/share/applications/filezilla.desktop /usr/share/applications/ #Copy all filezilla provided icons to the /usr/share/icons/ sudo cp -a /opt/FileZilla3/share/icons/hicolor/* /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ #Change the icon of filezilla to avoid missing icons if [ -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/filezilla.svg ] then sudo desktop-file-edit --set-icon="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/filezilla.svg" /usr/share/applications/filezilla.desktop fi #Make the filezilla.desktop executable sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/filezilla.desktop echo "Removing the downloaded file" #Remove the downloaded file from # sudo rm -r filezilla* echo "Finished installing" #Run Filezilla filezilla &