Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#11645 closed Bug report (worksforme)
new version needs installation howto and stability notice
| Reported by: | Nick Levinson | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | FileZilla Client |
| Keywords: | install | Cc: | |
| Component version: | 3.33.0 (new: 3.34.0) | Operating system type: | Linux |
| Operating system version: | PCLinuxOS 2018 |
Description
I installed FieZilla, which immediately offered me a new version. I accepted and was sent an archive. I did not find a readme or other installation guide. For example, the de-archiving program asked me what to name what I was extracting. I assume that has to be a name that will be recognized by the OS desktop environment's main menu. I don't know what that name is, although maybe someone on the Internet knows. I assume I have to configure configuration files external to FileZilla, but I don't know which files or to say what. I assume the installed directories and files have to go to certain locations, but I don't know where and it's probably not the de-archiver's default destination, which is the /downloads/ directory for my login. And I think I see "nightlybuild", perhaps as an owner's name, which suggests that I'm upgrading from a stable version to an unstable one without notice, even though the right-hand version number is "0".
Please include an installation guide. A root-level readme.txt file might be all we need.
Please tell us if the new version is stable, especially in the old version's offer of a new version.
This installation attempt was on June 20, 2018.
The file downloaded by the update mechanism is in exactly the same format as you obtained FileZilla in the first place: By downloading and extracting a .tar.bz2 containing all the files in the expected hierarchy.
If you have installed FileZilla through other means, contact your package maintainer for assistance, as the package obviously isn't packaged correctly.