whiptail
Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
Binary packages in testing
| Architecture | Version | Section | Installed size |
|---|---|---|---|
| amd64 | 0.52.25-2+b1 | utils | 61 kB |
| arm64 | 0.52.25-2+b1 | utils | 97 kB |
| armhf | 0.52.25-2+b1 | utils | 96 kB |
| i386 | 0.52.25-2+b1 | utils | 64 kB |
| loong64 | 0.52.25-2+b1 | utils | 97 kB |
| ppc64el | 0.52.25-2+b1 | utils | 97 kB |
| riscv64 | 0.52.25-2+b1 | utils | 53 kB |
| s390x | 0.52.25-2+b1 | utils | 61 kB |
Description
Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
Dependencies amd64
- Depends
- libc6 (>= 2.38), libnewt0.52 (>= 0.52.25), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libslang2 (>= 2.2.4)
Source package
- Name
- newt
- Version
- 0.52.25-2
- Maintainer
- Alastair McKinstry
- Homepage
- https://pagure.io/newt
- Repository
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/newt.git
Bugs (31 open)
Each bug opens in the Debian bug tracking system, which holds its message log and current state.
- #1025163 important whiptail 0.52.22-1: checklist and radiolist are broken on bugs.debian.org pending source newt reported updated
- #557019 important Problems with ANSI-colors on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Juhapekka Tolvanen reported updated
- #1134773 normal whiptail: misaligned Priority: "important" in override, "optional" in d/control on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Gioele Barabucci reported updated
- #1106419 normal whiptail --menu/checklist breaks multi-byte character after 199 bytes on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by MichaIng reported updated
- #1084149 normal whiptail 0.52.23 --infobox fails to display bottom 2 lines of text on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Luke Niebergall reported updated
- #1010059 normal whiptail doesn't react to input in sudo shell pipe since Bookworm on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by MichaIng reported updated
- #998845 normal whiptail: broken display if width >= 513 on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by nix reported updated
- #945320 normal whiptail --scrolltext bars start below text/are hidden on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by MichaIng reported updated
- #640749 normal debconf: Does not display correctly in non 80x24/5 terminal on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Daniel Dickinson reported updated
- #406278 normal whiptail manpage issues on bugs.debian.org pending source newt reported updated
- #364739 normal Display problems with serial console on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Alastair McKinstry reported updated
- #324901 normal Documentation is not sufficent for whiptail verions 0.51.6-20 (Debian Sarge) on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Allyn, MarkX A reported updated
- #320078 normal whiptail is unable to handle special characters not present in current locale on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Micha Lenk reported updated
- #306856 normal program terminates when terminal resizes && gauge is running on bugs.debian.org forwarded source newt by Eduard Bloch reported updated forwarded to Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> upstream
- #303642 normal whiptail eats CPU when it becomes non-interactive on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Filipus Klutiero reported updated
- #265785 normal dpkg-reconfigure: users are not allowed to interrupt or suspend on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Dan Jacobson reported updated
- #136030 normal whiptail: resets cursor attributes on exit on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Francesco Potorti` reported updated helpupstream
- #86133 normal debconf: dialog: TERM variable is not being used, neither is user's xterm default colors on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Jeff Sheinberg reported updated
- #55182 normal whiptail: --infobox doesn't work well in an xterm on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Joey Hess reported updated upstream
- #1094207 minor whiptail.1: Some remarks and a patch with editorial changes for this man page on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Bjarni Ingi Gislason reported updated patch
- #733298 minor whiptail: Typo in manpage on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Simon Hollenbach reported updated
- #579906 wishlist whiptail: Add sensible run-time defaults for '--msgbox', et al. on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by A. Costa reported updated
- #570400 wishlist <Ok> should be <OK> to be correct English on bugs.debian.org pending source newt reported updated
- #570398 wishlist why not allow ^C interrupts, or at least ^Z suspend on bugs.debian.org pending source newt reported updated
- #570394 wishlist better error message if bad $TERM on bugs.debian.org pending source newt reported updated
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