title: Need putty in centos7 to convert ppk file to pem file to transfer files to amazon
body: <p>Have a ppk key to login into amazon machine. But to login from linux machine it has to be converted into pem file as i read in the following links.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://sarathlal.com/convert-ppk-file-to-pem-file-connect-to-remote-server-via-ssh-linux/" rel="nofollow">http://sarathlal.com/convert-ppk-file-to-pem-file-connect-to-remote-server-via-ssh-linux/</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://webkul.com/blog/convert-a-ppk-file-to-a-pem-file/" rel="nofollow">http://webkul.com/blog/convert-a-ppk-file-to-a-pem-file/</a></p>
  
  <p>But unable to find / install putty in centos7. </p>
  
  <pre><code>[dkanagaraj@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install puttygen
  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
   * base: centosv.centos.org
   * extras: centosk3.centos.org
   * updates: centosv.centos.org
  No package puttygen available.
  Error: Nothing to do
  
  [dkanagaraj@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install putty
  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
   * base: centosv.centos.org
   * extras: centosk3.centos.org
   * updates: centosv.centos.org
  No package putty available.
  Error: Nothing to do
  
  [dkanagaraj@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install putty-tools
  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
   * base: centosv.centos.org
   * extras: centosk3.centos.org
   * updates: centosv.centos.org
  No package putty-tools available.
  Error: Nothing to do
  
  [dkanagaraj@localhost ~]$ sudo yum whatprovides putty
  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
   * base: centosv.centos.org
   * extras: centosk3.centos.org
   * updates: centosv.centos.org
  No matches found
  
  [dkanagaraj@localhost ~]$ sudo yum repolist
  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
   * base: centosv.centos.org
   * epel: mirror.pregi.net
   * extras: centosk3.centos.org
   * updates: centosv.centos.org
  repo id                                                                              repo name                                                                                                           status
  base/7/x86_64                                                                        CentOS-7 - Base                                                                                                      9,007
  epel/x86_64                                                                          Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64                                                                      10,122
  extras/7/x86_64                                                                      CentOS-7 - Extras                                                                                                      310
  updates/7/x86_64                                                                     CentOS-7 - Updates                                                                                                   1,687
  repolist: 21,126
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Really appreciated if any other method is available.</p>