Install VSFTPD 3.0.2 on the ARM Platform for Raspbian or Debian

Saturday, January 3rd, 2015

Install VSFTPD 3.0.2 on the ARM Platform for Raspbian or Debian

Download and install the arm compiled VSFTPD 3.0.2 deb package file and init script:

wget -N http://dinofly.com/files/linux/vsftpd_3.0.2_arm.tar.gz
tar -zxvf vsftpd_3.0.2_arm.tar.gz
if [ ! -e "/etc/init.d/vsftpd" ]; then
    sudo cp vsftpd /etc/init.d/
fi
sudo dpkg -i vsftpd_3.0.2-1_armhf.deb

Now, run these commands:

sudo useradd -d /var/ftp ftp
sudo mkdir -p /var/ftp
sudo chown root.root /var/ftp

Finally, start the VSFTPD service and set it to run on boot:

sudo service vsftpd restart
sudo update-rc.d vsftpd defaults

VSFTPD 3.0.2 should now be installed on your ARM device.