macOS
Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install newtlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
Installer newt avec Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix, zypper, apt
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de newt pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
Linux
Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add newtAlpine Linux edge package indexes · newt · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%
sudo dnf install newtFedora Rawhide package metadata · newt · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#newtnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ne/newt/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install newtopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · newt · Source: download.opensuse.org
Debian aptvérifié · 92%
sudo apt install libnewt-devDebian stable package indexes · libnewt-dev · Source: deb.debian.org
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
Library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- whiptail
historique
Historique du projet et usages
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.
Historique du projet
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.
Historique d'adoption
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.
Modes d'utilisation
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.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
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.
Chronologie
- 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
Sources
- 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/
posture de sécurité
Niveau de risque : vert
library-like package without higher-risk signals.
Classificateur de risque
risque vert · confiance faible · appliance
Pourquoi
- library-like package without higher-risk signals
Signaux
- metadata:library-like
Comportement d'installation
- Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
- Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
- S’installe avec 4 dépendances d’exécution.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
whiptail | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-07-10
version du gestionnaire0.52.25
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontnot checked
dernière version détectéenon détecté
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://pagure.io/newtconfiance none
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | brew:newt |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.52.25 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/newt |
| Page d'accueil | https://pagure.io/newt |
| Dépôt | https://pagure.io/newt |
| Docs amont | https://pagure.io/newt |
| Licence | LGPL-2.0-or-later |
| Archive source | https://releases.pagure.org/newt/newt-0.52.25.tar.gz |
| Dépendances | gettext, popt, python@3.14, s-lang |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
Détails de la base source
| 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 |
|
correspondances dans les bases sources
Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Newt
Nix95%
newt
nix profile install nixpkgs#newt- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : 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
- Correspondance par : Newt
piste source
Généré depuis les données du dépôt
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Sources utilisées
- 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