How to install PuTTY – 0.70 on Ubuntu – 18.04

To install PuTTY&ndash 0.70 on Ubuntu &ndash 18.04

PuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocol, including SCP, SSH, telnet, rlogin and raw socket connection. It can also connect to a serial port. PuTTY was originally written for Microsoft Windows, but it has been ported to various other operating systems. It is available for most using operating systems such as Windows, Linux and MAC os.

Installing PuTTY

First, let' s start with updating the system repository.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease [235 kB]                           
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease                            
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease     
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease        
Get:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages [1,009 kB]
Get:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [1,019 kB]               
Get:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [517 kB]
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Get:16 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [8,115 kB]      
Get:17 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse i386 Packages [144 kB]
Get:18 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 Packages [151 kB]
Get:19 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse Translation-en [108 kB]
Get:20 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [40.8 kB]
Get:21 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse DEP-11 64x64 Icons [219 kB]
Fetched 37.3 MB in 1min 11s (524 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

In order to install PuTTY, run the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install putty -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  putty-tools
Suggested packages:
  putty-doc
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(Reading database ... 131704 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../putty-tools_0.70-4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking putty-tools (0.70-4) ...
Selecting previously unselected package putty.
Preparing to unpack .../putty_0.70-4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking putty (0.70-4) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Setting up putty-tools (0.70-4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Setting up putty (0.70-4) ...

Now PuTTY is installed and you can access it from the menu.

After opening the PuTTY application you can configure it to connect to the session.

You can verify the version of putty by tapping on the about option at the bottom left corner.

With this, the method to install Putty &ndash 0.70 on Ubuntu &ndash 18.04 comes to an end.