How To Install putty on Fedora 34

putty is SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install putty on Fedora 34.

What is putty

Putty is a SSH, Telnet & Rlogin client - this time for Linux.

We can use yum or dnf to install putty on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install putty.

Install putty on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install putty

Install putty on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install putty

How To Uninstall putty on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove putty

putty Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pageant
/usr/bin/plink
/usr/bin/pscp
/usr/bin/psftp
/usr/bin/psusan
/usr/bin/pterm
/usr/bin/putty
/usr/bin/puttygen
/usr/bin/puttytel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/864be461a42117421a6b9fec4e52ec0fe96cdc
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/a40063210bacbdb718b750f82862fc3cd17666
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/926b3e03b134c4dd6ff09b8bc2e96497c735f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/03c1d008e6582fb6d6eab36b33ce5b613215a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/e3410ed97a0f2522465efec99a980422ec905e
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/fd258ce5479b2bd6b54d2ae7dad732c5cd818a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/98aa3c52b1068be315da30398e82623f1242bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/69df0f1308513184eb914f058779c07675f9ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/3e0d2b3e08b6c45a678a0ab0acdc92e193f6e7
/usr/share/applications/putty.desktop
/usr/share/doc/putty
/usr/share/doc/putty/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/putty/html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixA.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixB.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixC.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixD.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixE.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixF.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixG.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter1.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter10.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter2.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter3.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter4.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter5.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter6.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter7.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter8.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter9.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/IndexPage.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/index.html
/usr/share/man/man1/pageant.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/plink.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pscp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psftp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psusan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pterm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/putty.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/puttygen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/puttytel.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/putty.png
/usr/bin/pageant
/usr/bin/plink
/usr/bin/pscp
/usr/bin/psftp
/usr/bin/pterm
/usr/bin/putty
/usr/bin/puttygen
/usr/bin/puttytel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/aa82d6910b815120beb9f5b5fc3a78f095932a
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/ab6cb756bca5aec67f34c8f26cb6eef1a6a5f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/629ac6f267b1614b19e47dee89f34950c22451
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/39db78cf314ea7cf82e7c5b4f0f679b26cc158
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/a0db9fd2b362d082ac262ac7804ed27bde0c0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/f6110f91e43f7ad928e92f129be3080083e07e
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/0e6e88feb2e7b7acc61845830e27fdcc662d91
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/90763c7420c927bf32a819465bd9fddd54c87f
/usr/share/applications/putty.desktop
/usr/share/doc/putty
/usr/share/doc/putty/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/putty/html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixA.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixB.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixC.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixD.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixE.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/AppendixF.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter1.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter10.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter2.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter3.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter4.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter5.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter6.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter7.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter8.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/Chapter9.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/IndexPage.html
/usr/share/doc/putty/html/index.html
/usr/share/man/man1/pageant.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/plink.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pscp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psftp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pterm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/putty.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/puttygen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/puttytel.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/putty.png

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install putty on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.