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Information about the package, dialog, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dialog package is designed for, A utility for creating TTY dialog boxes.


Package Name:

dialog

Summary:

A utility for creating TTY dialog boxes

Description:

Dialog is a utility that allows you to show dialog boxes (containing questions or messages) in TTY (text mode) interfaces. Dialog is called from within a shell script. The following dialog boxes are implemented: yes/no, menu, input, message, text, info, checklist, radiolist, and gauge. Install dialog if you would like to create TTY dialog boxes.

Architecture:

i686

Version:

1.1

Release:

10.20080819.el6

Size:

195 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for dialog


Control the dialog package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install dialog

This command will install dialog on the server.

yum remove dialog

This command will un-install dialog on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dialog, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove dialog

This command will un-install dialog on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dialog when using the -y flag.

yum update dialog

This command will update dialog to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dialog, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update dialog

This command will update dialog to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dialog when using the -y flag.

yum info dialog

This command will show you core information about the dialog package.

yum deplist dialog

This command will show you the dependencies for dialog. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update dialog

This command will check if there is an update waiting on dialog. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.