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Description:
Library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 0.52.25@0 | Tracked Since: Oct 20, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: tui library user-interface text-mode widgets

Install: brew install newt

About:
Newt is a library for developing text mode, widget-based user interfaces. It provides a simple API for creating windows, buttons, checkboxes, and lists, making it ideal for shell scripts and system utilities. It is the underlying toolkit for the Red Hat installer, Anaconda.

Key Features:

Widget-based UI toolkit for text mode
Bindings for multiple programming languages including C, Python, and Perl
Cross-platform support (Linux, BSD, Solaris)
Simple API for creating interactive shell scripts

Use Cases:

Creating interactive installer menus and configuration wizards
Building user-friendly TUIs for system administration scripts
Developing text-based frontend for complex command-line tools

Alternatives:

dialog – Newt provides a more programmatic API and widget set, whereas dialog is primarily driven via command-line arguments and is better suited for simple shell scripts.
ncurses – Newt is a higher-level toolkit built on top of ncurses, offering pre-built widgets rather than just raw terminal drawing capabilities.

Version History

Detected	Rev	Change	Commit
Oct 20, 2025 3:33pm	1	VERSION_BUMP	1a0510cf
Oct 20, 2025 12:54pm	1	VERSION_BUMP	4fa15212
Oct 13, 2024 9:49am	2	VERSION_BUMP	6eaf84a3