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:
x86_64
Version:
1.1
Release:
10.20080819.el6
Size:
512 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
LGPLv2
Control the dialog package with the following handy commands outlined below.
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.