Ubuntu - Trying to compile filezilla

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I am trying to compile filezilla following the instructions on their site, but when i do the sudo ./configure command it tells me i'm missing libfilezilla:

checking for LIBFILEZILLA... no configure: error: libfilezilla not found. You can download it from https://lib.filezilla-project.org/

Jojo Coana

Posted 2016-01-13T14:20:48.257

Reputation: 107

Answers

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Download and install LIBFILEZILLA and compile it. It is a dependency of Filezilla, but it isn't mentioned in the documentation for some reason.

In case you didn't know there is a filezilla package in the Ubuntu repositories

sudo apt-get install filezilla

you may also want to look at this

Ankush

Posted 2016-01-13T14:20:48.257

Reputation: 317

Thanks, this really helped. They should fix their documentation... – Jojo Coana – 2016-01-13T14:46:47.260

Infact not, it's still bothering about the LIBFILEZILLA... – Jojo Coana – 2016-01-13T14:49:17.793

@JojoCoana Your second comment, Does that mean Filezilla still isn't compiling? – Ankush – 2016-01-13T16:09:40.833

if it's still not compiling I would do an apt-get install for Filezilla and then try compiling - The idea here is to install all the dependencies from apt-get automatically, so when you compile you should have all the needed dependencies installed. – Ankush – 2016-01-13T16:22:20.750

I did just that, and it still complains about libfilezilla – Jojo Coana – 2016-01-14T16:50:08.280

It's possible that the version of libfilezilla in the repository does not match the version specified in the source (Ubuntu isn't the most up-to-date system when it comes to software packages). I would file a bug report on the filezilla website, try get the developers' attention on this issue. – Ankush – 2016-01-15T02:45:29.100

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