{"id":32714,"date":"2020-09-05T16:41:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=32714"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:27:43","slug":"warpinator-file-transfer-app-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/warpinator-file-transfer-app-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Warpinator – Linux Mint Developed File Transfer App for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Warpinator is a local network file transfer application developed by Linux Mint. It is written with Python 3 and works on most Linux desktops via Flatpak package.<\/p>\n

The software offers a simple clean interface that lists all available network machines with Warpinator running.<\/p>\n

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To send files, simply select a remote machine and click ‘Send files’ button. File transfer must be first approved by the recipient.<\/p>\n

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How to Get Warpinator:<\/h3>\n

For Linux Mint:<\/h4>\n

Linux Mint users can simply search for and launch terminal from start menu. Then run the command below to install the application from system repository:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install warpinator<\/pre>\n
For Ubuntu based systems<\/h4>\n
There’s a third-party PPA<\/a> contains the Warpinator package as well as a few other mint tools Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and their derivatives.<\/p>\n
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal, and run the command below one by one to add the PPA and install the file transfer:<\/p>\n
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333\/mint-tools<\/pre>\n
sudo apt update<\/pre>\n
sudo apt install warpinator<\/pre>\n
Install the app for most other Linux<\/h4>\n
The file transfer app is also available to install in most Linux systems as universal Flathub<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Firstly, follow the setup guide<\/a> to install Flatpak daemon on your system.<\/p>\n
Then, install Warpinator as flatpak package by running:<\/p>\n
flatpak install flathub org.x.Warpinator<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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And if you want to remove the package, run command:<\/p>\n
flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.x.Warpinator<\/pre>\n
Other platforms<\/h4>\n
There are unofficial clients for other platforms. Android user may simply search for and install it in F-Droid or Google Play. <\/p>\n
For iOS, an unofficial client<\/a> is in Beta stage. <\/p>\n
And Windows user may download and install the EXE from this github project page<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warpinator is a local network file transfer application developed by Linux Mint. It is written with Python 3 and works on most Linux desktops via Flatpak package. The software offers a simple clean interface that lists all available network machines with Warpinator running. To send files, simply select a remote machine and click ‘Send files’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-32714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-review","tag-file-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}