BareFTP is a file transfer client supporting the FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

BareFTP is a file transfer client supporting the FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

It is written in C#, targeting the Mono framework and the GNOME desktop environment. bareFTP is free and open source software released under the terms of the GPL license. areFTP is a file transfer client supporting the FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

It is written in C#, targeting the Mono framework and the GNOME desktop environment. bareFTP is free and open source software released under the terms of the GPL license. 

To access your FTP account, simply enter your hostname, port, user and password and click Connect. This will instantly connect you to your FTP client and allow transferring files via the two arrows located in the center of the interface. Select a file from either hosts and click the respective arrow to transfer it to the other host.

Download:

Latest release: 0.3.8 - [2011-04-04] | Release notes | ChangeLog

Source tarball: bareftp-0.3.8.tar.gz

Binary packages:

bareFTP is available as a binary package on more ditributions than I can provide instructions for here. Check the repositories for your distribution.

Select you distribution:

Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, bareFTP can be found in the universe repository. 

Unofficial builds
Unofficial builds for several ubuntu versions can be found in my ppa at launchpad. The ppa can be found here. Follow the instructions for your version.
You will need to import this key file on your system.

openSUSE

bareFTP can be found in the PackMan repository

Fedora

bareFTP can be found somewhere in the Fedora repositories.
New versions can be a bit delayed.

ArchLinux

bareFTP can be found in AUR. See here for information on how to install applications from AUR.
Optionally you can use the unoffical third-party tool yaourt to install from AUR.
New versions can be a bit delayed.

Gentoo

As bareFTP is still keyworded for testing, you will need to add an entry to your package.keywords file to be able to emerge it.


# echo 'net-ftp/bareftp ~arch' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# emerge net-ftp/bareftp


New versions can be a bit delayed.

Foresight

Install by running: sudo conary update bareftp
Or through packagekit, search for bareftp and push install.

FreeBSD

A FreeBSD port is available. See http://www.freshports.org/ftp/bareftp/ for information on how to download and install.

Dependencies

You'll need this to run bareFTP:

• Mono >= 2.0
• Gtk# >= 2.12 (gtk-sharp2)
• Gnome# >= 2.20 (gnome-sharp)
• gnome-keyring-sharp (optional)

Optional dependencies:

• gnome-keyring-sharp

On some distros the above mentioned dependencies are split up in several packages. For example, gnome-vfs-sharp2 and gconf-sharp2 might be standalone packages. If you want to compile from source you may need some development packages for this stuff. You'll just have to figure it out...

Source code repository

The bareFTP source code has moved over to gitorious. You can download the latest source by running something as:

git clone git://gitorious.org/bareftp/bareftp.git bareftp

Screenshots.

A few screenshots showing bareFTP in different development stages.

This shows bareFTP 0.3.0 in action during a FTP download on ArchLinux:

This one shows bareFTP 0.2.3 in action in Foresight Linux (thanks Tomas!) 

The preferences dialog in 0.3.0:

Bookmark dialog in 0.2.0: 

 

A few screenshots showing bareFTP in different development stages.

This shows bareFTP 0.3.0 in action during a FTP download on ArchLinux:

This one shows bareFTP 0.2.3 in action in Foresight Linux (thanks Tomas!) 

The preferences dialog in 0.3.0: 

Bookmark dialog in 0.2.0: 

 

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