Re: tasksel

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Fri 30 Aug 2019 at 13:11:52 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 05:31:50PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
> > What tool is used to produce the graphical interface for programs such
> > as tasksel
> 
> A program named dialog, or whiptail which is basically "dialog lite".
> Both of these are in packages with the same name as the program.
> 
> ii  dialog         1.3-20190211-1 amd64        Displays user-friendly dialog box
> ii  whiptail       0.52.20-8      amd64        Displays user-friendly dialog box

I've never used whiptail but dialog is a brilliant utility. For
devising menus and implementing them it is unbeatable. It has many,
many uses beyond tasksel. yad and zenity are GUI alternatives.

-- 
Brian