How To Install rubygem-net-telnet on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-net-telnet
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is rubygem-net-telnet
Provides telnet client functionality. This class also has, through delegation, all the methods of a socket object (by default, a TCPSocket, but can be set by the Proxy option to new()). This provides methods such as close() to end the session and sysread() to read data directly from the host, instead of via the waitfor() mechanism. Note that if you do use sysread() directly when in telnet mode, you should probably pass the output through preprocess() to extract telnet command sequences.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rubygem-net-telnet
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rubygem-net-telnet.
Install rubygem-net-telnet 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 rubygem-net-telnet
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rubygem-net-telnet
Install rubygem-net-telnet 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 rubygem-net-telnet
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rubygem-net-telnet
How To Uninstall rubygem-net-telnet on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the rubygem-net-telnet
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rubygem-net-telnet
rubygem-net-telnet Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/Gemfile
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/README.md
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/Rakefile
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/bin
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/bin/console
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/bin/setup
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/lib
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/lib/net
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/lib/net-telnet.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/lib/net/telnet
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/lib/net/telnet.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/lib/net/telnet/version.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/net-telnet-0.1.1/net-telnet.gemspec
/usr/share/gems/specifications/net-telnet-0.1.1.gemspec
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-net-telnet
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.