For some odd reason, the basic FTP client (netkit-ftp) was not installed in Redhat 6 distro. Following are some steps to install:
If yum is working fine for you (wasn’t working in my case), then its as simple as:
yum install ftp
The next option is to download the binary rpm (http://pkgs.org/) and install it:
rpm -Uvh ftp-<version>.rpm
In case you face issues such as “libc.so.6 not found” even though the required dependencies such as glibc is installed, then get the source ftp-<version>.src.rpm and build it using:
rpmbuild —rebuild ftp-<version>.src.rpm
It usually creates the compiled rpm file in “rpmbuild/RPMS” in the home folder. Install it using:
rpm -Uvh ftp-<version>.rpm
