PAC (Perl Auto Connector) Manager is a open source tool in Linux like operating system, which provides GUI (graphical user interface) to manage ssh,telnet, sftp, rdesktop, vnc,remote-tty & ftp sessions. In other words we can say that PAC Manager is alternate tool of Window’s Secure CRT & Putty in Linux.

Some of its Key Features are listed below :

In this article we will install latest version of PAC Manager on Linux Mint, Ubuntu & OpenSUSE.

Installation Steps of PAC Manager on Linux Mint & Ubuntu

As Linux Mint & Ubuntu both are the Debian based operating system. So we will first download PAC manager debian Package and then install it using dpkg command. Below steps are applicable for both Linux Mint & Ubuntu.

In case if you are getting dependencies problem as shown below while executing above command .

Use below apt-get command to resolve dependency issues.

Once the installation is finished, try to access PAC

Click On PAC

Installation Steps of PAC Manager on OpenSUSE 13.1 / 13.2

Download PAC RPM package depending your System’s Architecture.

Add the Perl repository that will provide dependency packages.

Note : Above repository is for OpenSUSE 13.1 and for OpenSUSE 13.2 just replace 13.1 with 13.2 and rest of things will be same .

Refresh the Repository using below Command :

[email protected]:~> sudo zypper ref

Now install the Download PAC rpm package using zypper

[email protected]:~> sudo zypper install pac-4.5.5.5-2.x86_64.rpm

Access PAC :

Click on PAC