Hello,

I have found that it is possible to turn pkgtool into a nice GUI program:

Download Xdialog and install

http://xdialog.dyns.net/

replace /bin/dialog by Xdialog

you are done pkgtool is now a nice GUI program. This trick work also for
texconfig.

The reason is that the dialog box displayed by pkgtool use "dialog" to
display these. Xdialog is fully compatible with dialog but display X
dialog box instead of the curse dialog box you see in the terminal.

Olive