How To Install newt on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install newt
on CentOS 7.
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 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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install newt.
Install newt on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install newt
using yum
by running the following command:
Install newt on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install newt
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall newt on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the newt
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install newt
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.