How To Install kdialog on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdialog on Ubuntu.

What is `kdialog`

kdialog is:

kdialog allows you to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax is very much inspired from the “dialog” command (which shows text mode dialogs).

There are three methods to install kdialog on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install kdialog Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install kdialog using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kdialog

Install kdialog Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kdialog using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kdialog

Install kdialog Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install kdialog using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kdialog

How To Uninstall kdialog on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the kdialog package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kdialog

Uninstall kdialog And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kdialog and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdialog

Remove kdialog Configurations and Data

To remove kdialog configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kdialog

Remove kdialog configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove kdialog configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdialog

Dependencies

kdialog have the following dependencies:

References

kdialog website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdialog package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.