
And the next thing is that you must have server credentials so that you can access it from the PuTTY terminal. There are some prerequisites to use PuTTY as your ssh client the first one is your server that you are going to connect with, must be installed and configured with an ssh server application.

By default, SSH is selected you can also use it for Telnet, Rlogin, or serial ports and raw sockets. Look at the snapshot below it shows the graphical interface of PuTTY.

You can download the latest version of PuTTY from here. Use the following command if you are using a Pacman package management based Linux distribution like Arch Linux – sudo pacman -s puttyĮxecute the given commands if you want to install it from the source – tar -xvf putty-0.73.tar.gz Or use the following command on Fedora Linux to install PuTTY – sudo dnf install putty -y – sudo add-apt-repository universeįor CentOS or RedHat or any rpm package management Linux distros, use the following command – sudo yum install putty -y Use the following commands in Debian package management distros such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.

Instead of using PuTTY as SSH client, It can also be used to connect to serial ports and raw sockets, Telnet, SCP, and many more. First of all its GUI that makes it more userfriendly especially for the command line new users.
