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Package: whiptail (0.52.11-2ubuntu7)

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Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Alastair McKinstry

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts

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.

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  • dep: libpopt0 (>= 1.16)
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  • dep: libslang2 (>= 2.0.7-1)
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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 27.2 kB104.0 kB [list of files]
i386 26.0 kB100.0 kB [list of files]