How To Install putty on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install putty on Rocky Linux 8. putty is SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install putty on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `putty`

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

We can use yum or dnf to install putty on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install putty.

Install putty on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install putty

Install putty on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove putty

putty Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/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/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/1db1a229e6c8fbec712fec628cadf37154d6f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/9201b7efaba3d76c61eefb2f0cb9c0fa2e9ea9
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/d3b049316442cb34645604ccc32daf438456b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/7e5401a8349a4b3cb4e96e7f4cc7eb2a8544e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/96a4d6986db5730cdf5e4eb3e57a873a1c44b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/ceec6fc925d45aeeda27637b4cad1c4e9ac198
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/c4a382f2489c27ee0d22a4e3f711e2258b422c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/8c0a751296a4953f03914d143dfe1c1cc42fb7
/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

putty website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install putty on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.