Installing Putty?

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi, Phil!

Personally, I tend to prefer AppGate's MindTerm : 
http://www.appgate.com/products/80_MindTerm/

This is free... source is available (though the license is far from GPL 
- can't use it for heavy business use, but it is free for personal, 
educational, and also small business deployments).

It is written in Java. Works as an applet (available form a web site) or 
as an application (run from shell through "java -jar mindterm.jar" command).

It does SSH, of course, but offers a GUI for tunnel set up, offers 
SOCKS, TELNET, SCP, sFTP plugins/tunnels by default.

You need the Sun Java VM (either downloaded directly from 
http://java.sun.com/ if you want the very latest, or installed as the 
sun-java5-jre package from your favorite package manager, strangely, 
this is a slightly older version), but appart from that, it runs 
marvelously on Ubuntu (and any OS that runs Java 1.4 or better).

Gilles.

Phil wrote:
> Has anyone had any success installing Putty?
>
> I could not install Putty using "sudo apt-get install putty"
>
> And I did a search for putty debian package in google and found a .deb 
> package but I was missing prerequisites and it did not tell me what 
> they were...
>
> Any help would be appreciated....
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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