[plug] putty for Red Hat Linux 7.3

[Lawrie Abbott]

Bret Busby wrote:

>I need to use putty.
>
>In searching the Internet for a putty RPM for Red Hat Linux 7.3, the 
>only site with RPM's that I found, was at 
>http://dag.wieers.com/packages/putty
>
>I have gone to that web site, and to other websites that have his putty; 
>putty.0.54-1.rh73.dag.i386.rpm
>
>I have downloaded the RPM, after problems from one of the sites, 
>requiring a real audio plugin (to download an RPM?) and, having managed 
>to download the RPM file, I could not install it.
>
>gnorpm crashed repeatedly with an authorisation error (1974, I think, 
>from memory), and, when I tried to use the command line rpm installer; 
>rpm -i <package name>, an error was returned;
>"error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/puttygen; <hex 
>number that changes each time - assumed to be memory location>:cpio: 
>read"
>
>I was referred to the planetmirror ftp site, at 
>ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS
>
>I cannot find putty on that web page, and I do not know whether some 
>package with another name, contains putty. Also, the files on that web 
>page, appear to be dated up to April 2002, a couple of years ago, and my 
>system was last updated in about January, I think, when a new kernel for 
>RH 7.3, was released.
>
>Does anyone have any helpful advice, as to how I can get putty up and 
>running on my system?
>
>Thanks in anticipation.
>
>  
>
I just tried
 apt-get install putty
and putty was installed succesfully  (from dag wieers), and from a quick 
test, runs without problems (RH9).

Maybe try downloading the SRPM from dag wieers and building it on your 
machine.


Cheers
Lawrie Abbott