How to Install Telnet Client

1. Issue the following commands to confirm that telnet is installed or not :

# telnet localhost 80

If telnet client does not installed, it should return something like :

# telnet localhost 80
-bash: telnet: command not found

2. Verify telnet client using which command :

# which telnet
/usr/bin/which: no telnet in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

3. Issue the following command to install telnet client :

# yum install telnet -y

4. If telnet client installed, it should return something like :

# telnet localhost 80
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

or

# which telnet
/usr/bin/telnet