How to Install and Uninstall whiptail Package on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "whiptail" package

Please follow the steps below to install whiptail on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall whiptail on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur):


    
        
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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 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Package: whiptail
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.52.23-1ubuntu1
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: 55
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libnewt0.52 (>= 0.52.23), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libslang2 (>= 2.2.4)
Filename: pool/main/n/newt/whiptail_0.52.23-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 17996
MD5sum: 9a7956bac9c2bb3578bc886ef938ba41
SHA1: f4c0edd55033bd1d393faa2c4742f25408769ce9
SHA256: 9b05da462a84c56c2654ee09bdd510d798658d500c9a4d98345eab9ad05cce3c
SHA512: 6f3ec64f393d8bbdf869598f9c845c45e0f6bc4888e8c5c48c476b523a625e4031d821f2672b335533242ece06632cd1d6ac1e7739eb2bf3d736b67ebf4edb03
Homepage: https://pagure.io/newt
Description: Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
Description-md5: 845a08009ef9f0ef4ecc0aedd3a36ffa
Task: minimal