I assume you are using CentOS.
There are two ways to do this:
To install a ftp client without using a control panel
To install a Control Panel (such as cPanel and Kloxo) which comes with FTP Client pre-installed.
So, if you want to use a FTP Client without using a control panel you can install it by firstly connecting via SSH, then typing the following commands on your SSH Client.
you can start the daemon service
you can also configure it in
You might also want to enable vsftp on start-up, so
To make it even more simple, here are the steps:
1) yum install vsftpd
2) /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
3) useradd username
4) passwd username
And check from FTP client if you get through.
The second way is by install a Control Panel, i will be using Kloxo in this one.
sh ./kloxo-install-master.sh
Good luck with everything.