{"id":352,"date":"2008-10-07T22:56:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T20:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2008-10-07T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T20:58:00","slug":"mintupload-2-featuring-ftp-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"MintUpload 2, featuring FTP support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

MintUpload is the little tool which pops up when you right-click on a file and select “upload”. Until now mintUpload was mostly used as a way to share files by uploading them to a public place somewhere on one of Linux Mint’s servers and by sending the corresponding URL to friends and family members (or to anybody really..). Some people also bought Mint-Space accounts and were able to set up mintUpload to add an additional upload service to it. These people could then share files in a similar manner but instead of using a public storage space and being limited to 2 days, they could use their 1GB of Web space and have their files kept there indefinitely.<\/p>\n

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Some people mentioned that mintUpload was great at sharing files with others but not so much at actually “uploading” them and we got a lot of requests to add FTP support to that tool.<\/p>\n

Initially mintUpload was designed with novice users in mind, people who wanted to share large files with each others and who didn’t know what FTP meant or where to get free web space to store them. After gathering some feedback, we’ve come to realize that mintUpload also got popular with experienced users, people who even had their own FTP accounts and wanted a quick way to upload files to it without launching an FTP client. So we added FTP support to MintUpload by defining another type of service and letting the user define his own FTP services.<\/p>\n

Installation<\/strong><\/p>\n

To install MintUpload you need the Romeo repositories. Perform an \u201capt update\u201d and an \u201capt install mintupload\u201d in a terminal.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t have Romeo set up, you can grab the packages from here:<\/p>\n