Installing teraterm or putty
 

Dear Team

can you help me how to install putty or teraterm in ubuntu 16.10


Thank you

to be honest, I have no idea if it is available in ubuntu 16.10

16.10 is old, out of date. you should upgrade


and anything wrong with ssh ?

I have endured putty on windows in the past, I didn't like it.

Thank you let me upgrade my ubuntu OS first

PuTTy does have navtive version which I believe is available through the regular software repository.

Teraterm is a only a windows program as far as I can remember. You can probably run it via wine but depending on how you use the program we can suggest a native linux application.

As Firerat said, 16.10 is VERY old....and I'd put this into the "why bother?" category. Just typing "ssh user@host" from the command-line gives you a terminal, without installing ANYTHING.

Also, read the "Question Guidelines" link in my posting signature. We are happy to help with specific questions, but you need to do basic research on your own. Going to The Putty website has not only the software, but an install guide. Putting "how to install putty on ubuntu 16.10" into Google pulls up step-by-step directions as the *VERY FIRST HIT*. Don't ask people to look things up for you.

Hello and welcome to LQ.

Generally two ways to install a program.

One is by using the built in software management system. Apt, apt-get and dpkg in this case I'd think.

Two is to get a package outside of Ubuntu's system.

Almost always better to use the distro system.


As mentioned above it may not be found unless you expand how the distro looks for a program.

https://itsfoss.com/putty-linux/ Should work.

I did "apt show putty" on my Debian, it is in the "main" repo
My assumption if it is available in Debian is is *probably* in Ubuntu as well

my concern was 16.10
I never really know the support lengths of Ubuntu
but I do know 16 is the year, 10 is the month

.04 are the long term support versions, ( 3 or 5 years ?? )
.10 are short term, I think last less than a year.

looks like I wasn't far off

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

16.10 had July 20, 2017 end of life.

The long term support versions are only the .04 ones in even numbered years, so 16.04 was a LTS release but 17.04 (and 19.04) were not.
As the support period for LTS releases is 5 years, 16.04 and 18.04 are currently still supported, but 14.04 has gone EOL in april this year.
The short term releases normally are only supported for about 9 months (until the next one - 6 months later - with a few months overlap).

So yes, 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) has been EOL for a long time already.

Guess the OP is a newbie, maybe we can explain how to upgrade.

The process is described in e.g. this article: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/servergu...upgrading.html or any other article found with the search term "do-release-upgrade".

Although a graphical user interface seems the more logical choice, I prefer working in the terminal. I'd follow these steps:

1. Open "Terminal"
2. Type in the text sudo do-release-update
3. Follow any instructions that follow

Explanation: when you open the terminal, you are logged in to the system as yourself, the user. Even if you installed the system yourself with this username, you still have to tell the system that you want to issue the command as being the "super-user" also called "root". The sudo command does that for you: if you type the text sudo <command> and put in the password, the system will run that command with full permissions.

Have you tried trusted old telnet. It's not fancy but works.

Simply telnet <ip address>

If you don't have it do this

sudo apt install telnet

After installed do a man telnet or info telnet

Ken

Sorry, but **PLEASE** do not suggest telnet. It is not 'trusted', and hasn't been for well over 20 years now...anything that sends all traffic unencrypted isn't a tool that should be used at all, unless there is absolutely NO OTHER CHOICE. Using a telnet CLIENT for testing purposes is one thing, but suggesting that telnet server be installed and actually used is incredibly bad security.

SSH is pretty much the 'default', and has been for many years now. It provides both terminal, X windows forwarding, and file transfer (via SFTP and SCP), all on one easily managed port. The telnet/FTP combination is one that was used well over 20 years ago, and should be left there.

TBOne,

Sorry I offend you. I was simply offering an alternative for testing
connectivity. Then move on to ssh.

I started using Unix in 1974. Later Linux. So, please don't lecture me.

Ken

Wasn't offended at all, and the post wasn't written to say 'for testing, then move on to ssh', but rather "trusted old telnet", which certainly reads as if it's a viable alternative to SSH...which it isn't.
Good for you; I started not much later than that, and as such, know better than to suggest telnet. The suggestion to use telnet was (and is) bad, period. As such an experienced user, it's surprising you didn't acknowledge that.

TBOne,

You are absolutely correct. I was trying to help out.

I joined linuxquestions just recently. Perhaps I should
just use my rocking chair and forget about computers.

By the way. Do you have a first name?

Ken

No one here has any control over what you do.
Yes, and you certainly don't need to know it.