How to Install and Uninstall telnet-ssl Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

You can also install and uninstall the telnet-ssl on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "telnet-ssl" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install telnet-ssl on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall telnet-ssl on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                telnet-ssl
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the telnet-ssl package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: telnet-ssl
Source: netkit-telnet-ssl
Version: 0.17.41+really0.17-3
Installed-Size: 196
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Provides: telnet-client
Depends: netbase, libc6 (>= 2.34), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5)
Description: telnet client with SSL encryption support
Description-md5: c86b4e7d66c3252a99ac0e2cff11a903
Tag: admin::login, implemented-in::c++, interface::commandline,
interface::shell, interface::text-mode, network::client,
protocol::ipv6, protocol::ssl, role::program, security::authentication,
security::cryptography, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::login
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.41+really0.17-3_amd64.deb
Size: 83344
MD5sum: a2fb6b3cf3d533be23cfde4f7ba694a6
SHA256: 6d8dd75a54eb56e7a15b3bc304ad74623b460f9dc8db2ccf58adf1f8909407ef