How to Install and Uninstall whiptail Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "whiptail" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install whiptail on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall whiptail on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: whiptail
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.52.21-4ubuntu7
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: important
Section: utils
Source: newt
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 71
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libnewt0.52 (>= 0.52.21), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libslang2 (>= 2.2.4)
Filename: pool/main/n/newt/whiptail_0.52.21-4ubuntu7_amd64.deb
Size: 17272
MD5sum: 8c51ecdb5b6c99b647069737a3f36cea
SHA1: 89fba06bcbf402196a5926990533e5cb5f4f137a
SHA256: 50687929b1bd3328f6249b792fafdac4b08a16bb232a37ec56f8f5e19bec1f27
SHA512: e227770cf81edc7ba4c2514809032a874aa89672dd4bab1b0c6c584bf033a30d0f1d46ba188ad5d44c55ba0c2e238e905ea4acc25b3689b8fd61eb3938a37c2c
Homepage: https://pagure.io/newt
Description-en: 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.
Description-md5: 845a08009ef9f0ef4ecc0aedd3a36ffa
Task: minimal