whiptail
Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
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whiptail
About whiptail
From Debian's package description
Whiptail is a "dialog" replacement using newt instead of ncurses. It provides a method of displaying several different types of dialog boxes from shell scripts. This allows a developer of a script to interact with the user in a much friendlier manner.
From Debian's description of the whiptail package, under that package's license.
Dependencies
Depends on
libc6libnewt0.52libpopt0libslang2
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Sources and licenses
- Name: the Debian package name.
- Summary: Debian's short description of the whiptail package, under that package's license.
- Description: Debian's description of the whiptail package, under that package's license.
- Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
- Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.
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