Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install putty on Kali Linux.
What is putty
putty is:
This is the Unix port of the popular Windows SSH client, PuTTY. It supports
flexible terminal setup, mid-session reconfiguration using Ctrl-rightclick,
multiple X11 authentication protocols, and various other interesting things
not provided by ssh in an xterm.
Pageant is an SSH authentication agent, and a tool for communicating with
an already-running agent.
There are three methods to install putty 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 putty Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install putty using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install puttyInstall putty Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install putty using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install puttyInstall putty 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.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install putty using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install putty
How To Uninstall putty on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the putty package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove puttyUninstall putty And Its Dependencies
To uninstall putty and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove puttyRemove putty Configurations and Data
To remove putty configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge puttyRemove putty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove putty configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge puttyDependencies
putty have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- putty-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install putty package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
