Olive wrote:
> 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


I haven't checked, but it seems like vector linux did this to the
slackware pkgtool program a long time ago. I did wonder about that at
some point. Thanks.