macOS
Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
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Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für newt in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%
sudo apk add newtAlpine Linux edge package indexes · newt · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%
sudo dnf install newtFedora Rawhide package metadata · newt · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#newtnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ne/newt/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com
openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%
sudo zypper install newtopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · newt · Quelle: download.opensuse.org
Debian aptverifiziert · 92%
sudo apt install libnewt-devDebian stable package indexes · libnewt-dev · Quelle: deb.debian.org
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- whiptail
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
Newt is a Red Hat-origin text-mode widget library built on S-Lang. It provides stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, text fields, scrollbars, and related primitives for terminal user interfaces. The Homebrew package also exposes whiptail, the shell-friendly dialog-box command built on top of newt.
Projektgeschichte
Newt is old Unix/Linux installer plumbing. The upstream README carries Red Hat copyright from 1996 through 2016 and describes the library as a color text-mode widget toolkit based on S-Lang. The long 0.52.x changelog is mostly maintenance: Python binding updates, whiptail layout fixes, translations, compiler fixes, memory-safety fixes, pkg-config support, macOS build fixes, and distribution patch integration.
Whiptail's man page frames the user-facing command: it lets shell scripts present yes/no, menu, input, message, checklist, radiolist, gauge, password, and other dialog boxes. That makes newt less visible than ncurses or dialog, but very sticky in installers, rescue flows, and scripts that inherited whiptail behavior.
Adoptionsgeschichte
Newt's adoption came through operating-system tooling rather than developer fashion. It is packaged by Linux distributions and BSD ports because installers, scripts, and legacy admin tools need a small text UI stack. Debian and related systems also preserve whiptail compatibility for scripts that expect dialog-like behavior.
Homebrew analytics reported 247 installs in 30 days, 920 in 90 days, and 3,858 in 365 days for the formula when queried on July 1, 2026. For macOS, this is usually dependency or script compatibility usage rather than developers choosing newt for a new greenfield TUI.
Wie es verwendet wird
Package nerds usually encounter newt indirectly: a dependency needs libnewt, or an installer script invokes whiptail. Direct users write C against libnewt, Python against snack bindings where available, or shell scripts against whiptail when they want dialog boxes without depending on a full GUI.
The practical caution is compatibility. whiptail resembles dialog but is not identical, and scripts often rely on exact option support, output file descriptors, menu formatting, and terminal behavior. That is why small changelog entries about automatic width, unicode, --notags, --noitem, gauges, and resizing matter.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
Newt is infrastructure glue: old, unglamorous, and still packaged because deleting it breaks installers and shell scripts. In av.db it is important mainly because the executable surface is whiptail and the library is likely a transitive dependency.
Zeitleiste
- 1996: Upstream README copyright begins with Red Hat, marking the project's early Linux distribution roots.
- 2007-01-31: whiptail man page version line documented Whiptail 0.52.5.
- 2009: Newt 0.52.11 fixed CVE-2009-2905 according to the changelog.
- 2025: 0.52.25 was the stable version reported by Homebrew on July 1, 2026.
- 2026-07-01: Homebrew formula version observed as 0.52.25, with 3,858 formula installs over the preceding 365-day analytics window.
Related projects
- S-Lang
- whiptail
- dialog
- snack Python bindings
- Red Hat installer tooling
Quellen
- https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/newt.json
- https://github.com/mlichvar/newt
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlichvar/newt/master/CHANGES
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlichvar/newt/master/README
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlichvar/newt/master/whiptail.1
- https://www.freshports.org/devel/newt/
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
library-like package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- library-like package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:library-like
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
- Installiert mit 4 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
Empfohlene Prüfung
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
whiptail | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-07-10
Manager-Version0.52.25
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
- InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://pagure.io/newtnone Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:newt |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.52.25 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/newt |
| Homepage | https://pagure.io/newt |
| Repository | https://pagure.io/newt |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://pagure.io/newt |
| Lizenz | LGPL-2.0-or-later |
| Quellarchiv | https://releases.pagure.org/newt/newt-0.52.25.tar.gz |
| Abhängigkeiten | gettext, popt, python@3.14, s-lang |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | newt |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 1 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Andere Paketmanager-Einträge
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
Debian apt95%
libnewt-dev 0.52.25-1
Developer's toolkit for newt windowing library
sudo apt install libnewt-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 2 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Debian apt95%
libnewt-pic 0.52.25-1
Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit, shared library subset kit
sudo apt install libnewt-pic- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Debian apt95%
libnewt0.52 0.52.25-1
Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode windowing with slang
sudo apt install libnewt0.52- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 2 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Debian apt95%
newt-tcl 0.52.25-1
NEWT module for Tcl
sudo apt install newt-tcl- Section: interpreters
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 5 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Debian apt95%
python3-newt 0.52.25-1
NEWT module for Python3
sudo apt install python3-newt- Section: python
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 3 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Debian apt95%
whiptail 0.52.25-1
Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
sudo apt install whiptail- Section: utils
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 4 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Nix95%
newt
nix profile install nixpkgs#newt- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Ubuntu apt95%
libnewt-dev 0.52.24-2ubuntu2
Developer's toolkit for newt windowing library
sudo apt install libnewt-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 2 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Ubuntu apt95%
libnewt-pic 0.52.24-2ubuntu2
Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit, shared library subset kit
sudo apt install libnewt-pic- Section: universe/libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Ubuntu apt95%
libnewt0.52 0.52.24-2ubuntu2
Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode windowing with slang
sudo apt install libnewt0.52- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 2 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Ubuntu apt95%
newt-tcl 0.52.24-2ubuntu2
NEWT module for Tcl
sudo apt install newt-tcl- Section: universe/interpreters
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 5 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Ubuntu apt95%
python3-newt 0.52.24-2ubuntu2
NEWT module for Python3
sudo apt install python3-newt- Section: python
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 3 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Ubuntu apt95%
whiptail 0.52.24-2ubuntu2
Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
sudo apt install whiptail- Section: utils
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: newt
- 4 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
apk95%
newt 0.52.25-r1
Redhat's Newt windowing toolkit development files
sudo apk add newt- License: LGPL-2.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: newt
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
apk95%
newt-dev 0.52.25-r1
Redhat's Newt windowing toolkit development files (development files)
sudo apk add newt-dev- License: LGPL-2.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: newt
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
apk95%
newt-doc 0.52.25-r1
Redhat's Newt windowing toolkit development files (documentation)
sudo apk add newt-doc- License: LGPL-2.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: newt
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Newt
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment