Putty is GUI SSH, Telnet and Rlogin alternative client for graphical user interface. PuTTY is not a part of the standard RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 repository however can be installed from the EPEL repository directly as an RPM package using the dnf
command.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to install PuTTY on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 using the dnf command.
- How to launch PuTTY.
Software Requirements and Conventions Used
Category | Requirements, Conventions or Software Version Used |
---|---|
System | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 |
Software | putty-0.70-2 or higher |
Other | Privileged access to your Linux system as root or via the sudo command. |
Conventions |
# – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command$ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user |
How to install putty in RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 step by step instructions
- Install the
putty
package directly form the EPEL repository. At the time of writing only EPEL 7 repository is available so check the below link for a possible updates.# dnf install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/p/putty-0.70-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
- Launch putty by searching the
Activities
menu:or directly from the command line terminal by executing the
putty
command:$ putty