What are you talking about? There is no point that dialog is not supported on Ubuntu ppc64el server!
In fact, dialog package is available by default in apt archive repository: http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports, in the same main URL as dash's: http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/main/d/dialog/dialog_1.2-20150920-1ubuntu1_ppc64el.deb http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/main/d/dash/dash_0.5.8-2.1ubuntu2_ppc64el.deb for quick installation for all Ubuntu releases up to 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) so far, as demonstrated below: root@ubt1604KD2:/# uname -a Linux ubt1604KD2 4.4.0-15-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 19:06:23 UTC 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux root@ubt1604KD2:~# apt install dialog Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dialog 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 199 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,311 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial/main ppc64el dialog ppc64el 1.2-20150920-1ubuntu1 [199 kB] Fetched 199 kB in 0s (255 kB/s) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1549300 Title: dialog wrongly requires double backslashes (\\n, \\Z) for control codes in option file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dialog/+bug/1549300/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
