How To Install telnet on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install telnet.
Install telnet 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 telnet using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install telnet
Install telnet 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 telnet using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install telnet
How To Uninstall telnet on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the telnet package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove telnet
telnet Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/telnet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/fa19493ce136d83c3d9f7e83362d3d7bc72dc1
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.