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Install Telnet on Alpine Linux

Aug 09, 2022 · 1 min read · Post a comment

Having Telnet within the Alpine Docker image can be useful in terms of quickly checking the connection between your services, like Redis, etc. So, here you can find how to install Telnet on Alpine Linux.

Prerequisites

  • Alpine Linux
  • sudo privileges

Install Telnet on Alpine Linux

Step 1. As usual update the Alpine packages.

sudo apk add update

Step 2. Install Telnet.

sudo apk add busybox-extras

Step 3. Verify installation.

telnet

Conclusion

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