Package sftp is not available, but is referred to by another package

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtwdyp at ttlc.net
Fri Aug 21 05:54:59 UTC 2009


It would appear that on Aug 19, Eric did say:

> I have Krusader installed and I use it to do SFTP. You set it up in one 
> of the menus. Actually you don't really set up anything. You just enter 
> the normal data you enter for SFTP.

Krusader hmmnnn? I tried that once, thought it might be enough like
midnight commander (which is the only file manager I ever use) that I
might like it. I found it way to cumbersome, so the next time I had to
do a clean linux install I didn't bother adding it back in... Still
from what I remember, even though it was cumbersome, it did at least
allow me to use it without having to dust of the (expletive-deleted)
rodent pointing device... So maybe I'll add it back in to my program
mix just so that I'll have an sftp client I can stand to look at. But
since that's all I'd use it for, it seams like a bit of overkill. 
Especially since I can't say when, or if the next occasion will arise 
that I'll even need to use an sftp client. I'm just used to keeping
a viable cli tool around just in case.

> I found an interesting program called Woof. It sets up a temporary 
> webserver. It's a Python program so all you have to enter is ./woof and 
> it returns a URL. You can give that to someone else or you can use it on 
> your other computer to download the file via HTTP. It appears to be a 
> simple way to transfer a file or two between computers, no matter if 
> they are a part of your network or just someone you wish to send a file 
> to.  http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html

Ummmnnn to do that wouldn't I have to open a port or two on my router?

I might be running linux, but it's my personal pc, I'm not running it
as any kind of server. 





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