How To Install putty on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install putty on CentOS 7.
What is putty
Putty is a SSH, Telnet & Rlogin client - this time for Linux.
We can use yum or dnf to install putty on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install putty.
Install putty on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install putty using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install putty
Install putty on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install putty using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install putty
How To Uninstall putty on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the putty package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove putty
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install putty on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
