How To Install telnet on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet on CentOS 7.
What is telnet
Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the Internet. The package provides a command line Telnet client
We can use yum or dnf to install telnet on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install telnet.
Install telnet on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install telnet using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install telnet
Install telnet 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 telnet using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install telnet
How To Uninstall telnet on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the telnet package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove telnet
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
