How To Install putty on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install putty on Debian 9.
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.
There are three methods to install putty on Debian 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- putty-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install putty package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.