How To Install putty on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install putty
on Debian 11.
What is putty
putty is:
This is the Unix port of the popular Windows SSH client, PuTTY. It supports flexible terminal setup, mid-session reconfiguration using Ctrl-rightclick, multiple X11 authentication protocols, and various other interesting things not provided by ssh in an xterm.
Pageant is an SSH authentication agent, and a tool for communicating with an already-running agent.
There are three methods to install putty
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install putty Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install putty
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install putty
Install putty Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install putty
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install putty
Install putty Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install putty
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install putty
How To Uninstall putty on Debian 11
To uninstall only the putty
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove putty
Uninstall putty And Its Dependencies
To uninstall putty
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove putty
Remove putty Configurations and Data
To remove putty
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge putty
Remove putty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove putty
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge putty
Dependencies
putty have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- putty-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install putty
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.