installing putty

[tafiela]

Im not sure if this is too much of a newb question but i just started my learning experience with linux yesterday. i downloaded putty in (putty-0.60.tar.gz ) so inorder to un tar it i used tar zxvf putty-0.60.tar.gz , so now its untarred how to excute it i tried to ./mkfiles.pl
but no luck, i really want to use command line i dont want to just double click it, here is the untar result------>


be_all.c import.c mksrcarc.sh raw.c sshdes.c terminal.c
be_all_s.c int64.c mkunxarc.sh README sshdh.c terminal.h
be_none.c int64.h network.h Recipe sshdss.c testback.c
be_nos_s.c LATEST.VER nocproxy.c resource.h sshdssg.c testdata
be_nossh.c ldisc.c noprint.c rlogin.c ssh.h time.c
Buildscr ldisc.h notiming.c sercfg.c sshmd5.c timing.c
charset ldiscucs.c pinger.c settings.c sshprime.c tree234.c
CHECKLST.txt LICENCE portfwd.c sftp.c sshpubk.c tree234.h
cmdgen.c logging.c pproxy.c sftp.h sshrand.c unix
cmdline.c mac proxy.c sign.sh sshrsa.c version.c
config.c macosx proxy.h sshaes.c sshrsag.c version.def
contrib manifest pscp.c ssharcf.c sshsh256.c wcwidth.c
cproxy.c minibidi.c psftp.c sshblowf.c sshsh512.c wildcard.c
dialog.c misc.c psftp.h sshbn.c sshsha.c windows
dialog.h misc.h putty.h ssh.c sshzlib.c x11fwd.c
doc mkauto.sh puttymem.h sshcrc.c storage.h
icons mkfiles.pl puttyps.h sshcrcda.c telnet.c




Can anyone help please in installing putty and making it function?


second question :>> i need to install Wget but when i use the add software option under system it says it is installed already however when i Man Wget it says unknown. any tips?

Again, thanks guys.

[bigtomrodney]

What distro are you using? Putty is likely already in the repositories and shouldn't need to be built. The other point is that ssh is included in almost every distro out of the box and is the normal way to connect to other machines.

Putty is most useful in Windows where there is no ssh client. As ssh is a command line protocol anyway, I'd recommend checking out the included ssh client or at worst installing Putty through your package manager.

[tafiela]

oh great, it is. thanks. although if there was a way i could have done it from it from the CLI please let me know. otherwise, thanks and im good to go!