Cannot locate rpm for putty?

Rocky Linux General
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ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=“8.7”

I wish to install PuTTY on this machine. However DNF does not find a package for it:

$ dnf search putty
Last metadata expiration check: 0:12:04 ago on Fri 09 Dec 2022 11:28:57 AM EST.
No matches found.

When I visit the EPEL website (https://rhel.pkgs.org/8/epel-x86_64/) there is no entry for it although pkgs.org says that this is the authoritative repository.

Where is it?

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Hi,

It does work:

[root@rocky8 ~]# dnf search putty
Last metadata expiration check: 1:00:07 ago on Fri 09 Dec 2022 05:05:50 PM CET.
================================= Name Exactly Matched: putty =================================
putty.x86_64 : SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client

I guess you need to do this:

dnf install epel-release
dnf config-manager --enable powertools

some epel packages require powertools, so need to enable that.

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That worked, Thank you.

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I’m curious; why PuTTY?

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It is the vendor recommended software to communicate with their emulation of legacy hardware.

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I can't find putty.

dnf install epel-release
Package epel-release-9-4.el9.noarch is already installed.
dnf config-manager --enable powertools
Error: No matching repo to modify: powertools.

Repos appstream, baseos, crb, epel, extras and plus are enabled.  Is powertools CRB now?
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Powertools is called crb on Rocky9.

dnf config-manager --enable crb

but anyway, you cannot find it because EPEL didn’t make putty available in their repository. You can use alternatives, such as open a console window and use standard ssh client:

ssh x.x.x.x

where x.x.x.x is the server you want to connect to, or replace it with the hostname.example.com if you are using DNS to resolve.

You can always make a request with EPEL to ask them to add putty rpm to their repository.

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I’m also trying to compile the source. That should work once I learn why it produced executables but not pterm or putty.

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@neil has put in requests for putty for epel 9. Hopefully we’ll see it soon.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173106

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173107

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for the time being i’ve built these in a copr - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/neil/putty-el9/

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I had to add gtk3-devel.x86_64. Then I was able to compile.

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Hi there :slight_smile: I wanted to reach out and let you know that Putty is now available for installation EPEL - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-e5c6a70772

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