Information about the package, telnet, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The telnet package is designed for, The client program for the Telnet remote login protocol.
Package Name:
telnet
Summary:
The client program for the Telnet remote login protocol
Description:
Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the Internet. The package provides a command line Telnet client
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.17
Release:
48.el6
Size:
109 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
BSD
Control the telnet package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install telnet
This command will install telnet on the server.
yum remove telnet
This command will un-install telnet on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove telnet, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove telnet
This command will un-install telnet on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove telnet when using the -y flag.
yum update telnet
This command will update telnet to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove telnet, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update telnet
This command will update telnet to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove telnet when using the -y flag.
yum info telnet
This command will show you core information about the telnet package.
yum deplist telnet
This command will show you the dependencies for telnet. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update telnet
This command will check if there is an update waiting on telnet. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.