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From a shell or a Terminal window, type ftp location, where location is an FTP site. For example: ftp metalab.unc.edu If the FTP site is available, it will prompt you for a user name. 2. Type anonymous for the Name and press Enter. The site prompts you for a password. 3. Type your e-mail address for the password and press Enter. 4. When your login is accepted, you can use these commands to find the software package or document that you are looking for: ls -CF To list the contents of the current directory. cd dir To change the current directory to the subdirectory dir. If you prefer, you can use two dots (cd ..) to go up a directory level. For example, try cd /pub/Linux/apps/doctools. 5. Type binary (to make sure the file is downloaded as a binary file). 6. To download a file from the current working directory, type get file where file is the application name. For example, to download the whichman application while /pub/Linux/apps/doctools is the current directory, type: get whichman-2.0.tar.gz 7. When the download is complete, type exit. Tip Before you start the ftp command, make sure that your current directory is the one in which you want to download the file. Alternatively, you could change to the directory you want by using the lcd command within ftp. For example, to change to /tmp/abcapp, type lcd /tmp/abcapp. Using rpmfind for Downloading If you are looking for software packages you know are in RPM format, rpmfind is probably the best tool for finding and downloading them. Besides finding the packages you request, rpmfind checks your Linux system so it can find packages that best match your current configuration. To use rpmfind, type rpmfind along with the software package you want. If you are connected to the Internet, rpmfind finds the package and asks if you want to download it. Here is an example of how you may use the rpmfind command to find the xv software packages: # cd /tmp # rpmfind xv Installing xv will require 943 KBytes Non-qualified hostname: maple(none)
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