The page is outdated and incomplete but it'll give you a general idea. You can find compiling instructions on this wiki. This is for the advanced user who wants to take a look at or modify the source code of FileZilla. Note there are additional steps required to make it portable. TIP: If you want to put FileZilla on a USB stick so you can take your copy of FileZilla with all its settings wherever you go, the zip version is the best bet. If you need such a program I can recommend the free and open source based program 7-zip. To do this you need a zip program (or if you are running Windows XP there's a simple unzipper included in the operating system). They are packed into one file and you need to unpack (unzip) them to use them. A zip-file is a file that contains files inside of it. If you have special needs, don't have sufficient rights to install programs or don't like installers, the zip version is there for you. Note: The installer version is not available for Linux or Mac. If you've already decided to go for the installer version, you can go directly to downloading. at work or at school) the zip version is the way to go. However, if you don't have sufficient rights to install programs on the computer you are using (e.g.

If you don't know which version to get, this is probably the one you want.

With this version you only need to download the file, run it and the program will get installed by itself. I will now try to explain each of them before we start downloading FileZilla in the next section.Īs a novice user the installer version is the safe and easy choice. Basically they are all the same, they are just presented to you differently. There have been unofficial versions of FileZilla that contained viruses and spyware on sites like, so don't use them! Also, I recommended to always get the latest version of FileZilla regardless of which version this documentation or the download page was based on!Īs I said earlier, there are three different FileZilla versions you can download. IMPORTANT NOTE: It is _strongly_ recommended that you only download FileZilla from the official source to avoid viruses and spyware.

4 Installing on GNU/Linux and other Unix(-like) systems.

3.1 Covered Top of FileZilla-Window by MacOS-Menu.

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