How To Install telnet on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet on Debian 12.
What is telnet
telnet is:
This package will force a switch from the old netkit telnet implementation to the inetutils-telnet one, which is an upstream maintained project.
This package can be safely removed once it has been upgraded, as inetutils-telnet provides a matching virtual package. It will stop being provided after Debian bookworm’s release.
If you want to keep using the netkit implementation, then install telnet-ssl instead.
There are three methods to install telnet on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install telnet Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install telnet using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install telnet
Install telnet Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install telnet using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install telnet
Install telnet 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 telnet using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install telnet
How To Uninstall telnet on Debian 12
To uninstall only the telnet package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove telnet
Uninstall telnet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall telnet and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove telnet
Remove telnet Configurations and Data
To remove telnet configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge telnet
Remove telnet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove telnet configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge telnet
Dependencies
telnet have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.