How To Install telnet on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet
on Kali Linux.
What is telnet
telnet is:
The telnet command is used for interactive communication with another host using the TELNET protocol.
For the purpose of remote login, the present client executable should be depreciated in favour of an ssh-client, or in some cases with variants like telnet-ssl or Kerberized TELNET clients. The most important reason is that this implementation exchanges user name and password in clear text.
On the other hand, the present program does satisfy common use cases of network diagnostics, like protocol testing of SMTP services, so it can become handy enough.
There are three methods to install telnet
on Kali Linux. 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.
After updating apt database, We can install telnet
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install telnet Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install telnet
using apt
by running the following command:
Install telnet Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install telnet
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall telnet on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the telnet
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall telnet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall telnet
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove telnet Configurations and Data
To remove telnet
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
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:
Dependencies
telnet have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install telnet
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.