How To Install telnet on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet on Rocky Linux 8. telnet is The client program for the Telnet remote login protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet on Rocky Linux 8.

What is telnet

Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the Internet. The package provides a command line Telnet client

We can use yum or dnf to install telnet on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install telnet.

Install telnet on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install telnet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install telnet

Install telnet on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install telnet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install telnet

How To Uninstall telnet on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the telnet package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove telnet

telnet Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/telnet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/a975a86bac538d1f277d2b005829cd8bfd0990
/usr/share/doc/telnet
/usr/share/doc/telnet/README
/usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.