How to Install and Uninstall dialog Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 03,2025

You can also install and uninstall the dialog on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "dialog" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install dialog on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "dialog" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall dialog on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the dialog package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: dialog
Version: 1.3-20230209-1
Installed-Size: 1213
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Provides: libdialog-dev
Depends: debianutils (>= 1.6), libc6 (>= 2.34), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Description: Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
Description-md5: bcacb3d599cbbb23a47a1141ae12a28b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html
Tag: interface::text-mode, role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses,
works-with::text
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/dialog/dialog_1.3-20230209-1_amd64.deb
Size: 284056
MD5sum: a69b36ef887785fc42de5c7c7e51936c
SHA256: e50477af8799be7e0656c35237c15b58fcd382d564be26eee09b190fc21969a0