How To Install newt on Fedora 34

newt is A library for text mode user interfaces A library for text mode user interfaces

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install newt on Fedora 34.

What is `newt`

Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. This package also contains the shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a /usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail. Newt is based on the slang library. newt 0.52.21 9.fc34 x86_64 101 k newt-0.52.21-9.fc34.src.rpm fedora A library for text mode user interfaces https LGPLv2 Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. This package also contains the shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a /usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail. Newt is based on the slang library.

We can use yum or dnf to install newt on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install newt.

Install newt on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install newt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install newt

Install newt on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install newt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install newt

How To Uninstall newt on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the newt package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove newt

newt Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/whiptail
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/a736b0a064a2b982041ace7f0aa9c2c003be06
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/1dfbf25b0abee2fc5411a933fd1573c95df234
/usr/lib64/libnewt.so.0.52
/usr/lib64/libnewt.so.0.52.21
/usr/share/doc/newt
/usr/share/doc/newt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/newt/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/newt/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/newt/README
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/bal/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/wo/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/whiptail.1.gz
/usr/bin/whiptail
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/ebe29f05bba8ff9938c38beddbf03eaab1e531
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/0171eb7c002e3c059b93671358a87e2cf7055f
/usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.52
/usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.52.21
/usr/share/doc/newt
/usr/share/doc/newt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/newt/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/newt/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/newt/README
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/bal/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/wo/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/whiptail.1.gz

References

[newt website](https://pagure.io/newt https://pagure.io/newt)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install newt on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.