How to Install and Uninstall telnet Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: March 15,2025

1. Install "telnet" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install telnet on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                telnet
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "telnet" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall telnet on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                telnet
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the telnet package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: telnet
Source: netkit-telnet
Version: 0.17-41.2
Installed-Size: 163
Maintainer: Mats Erik Andersson
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: netstd
Provides: telnet-client
Depends: netbase, libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5)
Description: basic telnet client
Description-md5: 80f238fa65c82c04a1590f2a062f47bb
Tag: admin::login, interface::shell, network::client, protocol::ipv6,
protocol::telnet, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::login
Section: net
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/n/netkit-telnet/telnet_0.17-41.2_amd64.deb
Size: 70440
MD5sum: 3a3cd64cf4f156bb9ed0cc81fe6b3135
SHA256: b456ee42ceadb28bc8ef73b594e216819b57fa0f9a1cde609f9b4fbd787c5311