Problem scenario
You want to run the puttygen command on a Linux server. (You tried yum and dnf commands to install putty, but they failed.) What do you do?
Solution
Prerequisites
i. These directions assume you have installed the C compiler. If you need assistance, see How Do You Install a C Compiler on Linux?
ii. These directions also assume you have the GTK library installed. For a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora server, run this: sudo yum -y install gtk2-devel.
iii. This assumes that make is installed. If you need assistance see How Do You Install the make Utility on Any Type of Linux?
Procedures
Run this script:
version=0.74
curl -L https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/putty-$version.tar.gz > /tmp/putty-$version.tar.gz
cp /tmp/putty-$version.tar.gz /bin/
cd /bin
tar -zxvf putty-$version.tar.gz
cd putty-$version
./configure
make
make install
echo ""
echo "Script is complete. Below will check the version for default CentOS/RHEL/Fedora installations…"
echo ""
/usr/local/bin/puttygen --version