How To Install newt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install newt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. newt.x86_64 is A library for text mode user interfaces

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install newt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `newt.x86_64`

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 to install newt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install newt.x86_64.

Install newt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install newt.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install newt.x86_64

How To Uninstall newt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the newt.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove newt.x86_64

newt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/whiptail
/usr/lib64/libnewt.so.0.52
/usr/lib64/libnewt.so.0.52.15
/usr/share/doc/newt-0.52.15
/usr/share/doc/newt-0.52.15/COPYING
/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/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install newt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.