How To Install telnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. telnet.x86_64 is The client program for the Telnet remote login protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `telnet.x86_64`

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 to install telnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install telnet.x86_64.

Install telnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install telnet.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install telnet.x86_64

How To Uninstall telnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the telnet.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove telnet.x86_64

telnet.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/telnet
/usr/share/doc/telnet-0.17
/usr/share/doc/telnet-0.17/README
/usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz

References

telnet.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.