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

Last updated: November 25,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "whiptail" package

Please follow the instructions below to install whiptail on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Learn how to uninstall whiptail on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: whiptail
Source: newt (0.52.23-1)
Version: 0.52.23-1+b1
Installed-Size: 57
Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libnewt0.52 (>= 0.52.23), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libslang2 (>= 2.2.4)
Description: Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
Description-md5: 845a08009ef9f0ef4ecc0aedd3a36ffa
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://pagure.io/newt
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::TODO, interface::text-mode, role::program,
scope::utility, use::viewing
Section: utils
Priority: important
Filename: pool/main/n/newt/whiptail_0.52.23-1+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 24228
MD5sum: beb813196711eb33ab02e83258f39915
SHA256: 61f7b57a599d1655d4866f5119c5274505cdd619c71b1c1c2b79b603b32f55ca