trouble installing putty
 

Hello everyone! I just bought an Acer Aspire One Netbook with the Linux Linpus Lite OS and I'm still getting used to it. I have been trying to install the putty program which I use for my Computer Science class in college. Does anyone know how to do this?

All of the functions of PuTTY are built into a Unix OS, you only need PuTTY on a Windows machine.

To telnet to a host you just do "telnet host", for SSH you do "ssh host", and so on.

yet oddly enough putty is available for linux. it is in the repo for Fedora 7. I guess some people really like the interface.


anyhoo, check your repo for putty, if its not there you can download the source code from putty.org and compile it yourself.
or you could install wine and run putty in that.

I think Im going to try these ideas first. I am not to familiar with telnet or ssh.

Thank you both for the help, I will let you know how it goes.

Thanks again,

Sean

Although putty is good for Windows, the linux terminals are superior for use withing linux (the ability to open new tabs, etc)

When I try to open a program after I DL them I keep getting a bunch of errors and it's a bunch of letters. What does that mean?

How are you downloading the programs? What format are the programs you download? What are the errors you're getting?

Well I downloaded wine from the wine website and it gives me a bunch of programs to execute with xarchiver and when I try to run the wine program it gives a bunch of errors in like a notepad type thing and it is like F F F 0 0. It is just a bunch of letters and numbers

Which version of Wine did you download from the website? What do you mean by "execute with xarchiver"? If you've downloaded the source code, have you compiled it?

I downloaded Wine 1.0.1 and sorry when I said execute, I meant extract. So I extracted all the files into the tmp/wine folder and then I go into that folder and click the one i thought was the program installer and I just got those errors.

You haven't compiled the program. To get it to run you need to open a terminal, cd to the directory, type "./config && make" then change to the root user and type "make install".

Well, I was going through all of what you said, and I came across some links by myself and I figured out I dont even need the wine program. I used Alt+f2 to open pirut and from there it opened all my software and i can also search for software and I downloaded putty and installed it from there. It works great. Thank you everyone, especially MadMan for taking the time to help me. It lead me to the me to an answer haha.

Thanks a lot guys :)

Just a point for future post. it was (and still isn't from a re-read) that the wine comments were related to putty in any way (especially since post 3 told you putty was available for linux).

The point is that a clear description of the problem and the exact steps that led to the errors would have had someone pointing out very quickly that you didn't need wine for what you were trying to achieve.

Just a tip.

I did not know how to use terminals at first, and I figured Wine would eliminate that factor but as i had to use it anyway I found out that I did not need wine. I just started using Linux so everything is new to me. Definately my stupidity for not doing research, so sorry.

Don't apologize - I just thought it may help in the future.

Good luck.