
telnet command not found on CentOS, RHEL, MacOS – Fixed


How to get telnet working on CentOS/RHEL and MacOS?
telnet is not available by default on a higher version of CentOS/RHEL and MacOS. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get it installed.
When you run telnet, you will notice the following error.
[[email protected] ~]# telnet
-bash: telnet: command not found
[[email protected] ~]#
To fix this, you need to install telnet
and it’s easy.
Installing telnet on CentOS/RHEL
- Log in to the server as
root
- Run the below command to install
yum -y install telnet
You can also use DNF if using CentOS 8.
dnf -y install telnet
It’ll download the package and install and show you the complete confirmation below.
Downloading packages:
telnet-0.17-64.el7.x86_64.rpm | 64 kB 00:00:00
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Installing : 1:telnet-0.17-64.el7.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : 1:telnet-0.17-64.el7.x86_64 1/1
Installed:
telnet.x86_64 1:0.17-64.el7
Complete!
Now, you can run telnet
[[email protected] ~]# telnet
telnet>
Have fun!
Installing telnet on MacOS
To install telnet on MacOS, you need to have/install Homebrew.
- Launch terminal and run the below command to install Homebrew (skip if you already have)
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
- It will take a few seconds and once done; you will see the success message.
Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 4947, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4947/4947), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4748/4748), done.
remote: Total 4947 (delta 49), reused 337 (delta 7), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (4947/4947), 3.99 MiB | 3.17 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (49/49), done.
Tapped 2 commands and 4731 formulae (4,989 files, 12.4MB).
Already up-to-date.
==> Installation successful!
Great, its time to install telnet using brew
command
brew install telnet
- It will download and install the necessary package. Once done, rerun the telnet.
Chandans-iMac:~ chandan$ telnet
telnet>
It was easy. Isn’t it?
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