This package is in the Ubuntu archive, available for installation on Ubuntu server installs, etc. However, it is only in the Ubuntu main archive as a dependency of the desktop product; it is not a component that we support as part of the server product.
What you have described is certainly a real bug, bug it is a bug we would decline to commit resources to fix for 16.04. A functionally similar supported component is the 'whiptail' package. It does not have identical commandline syntax to dialog, however, so you may not find it a suitable replacement. -- 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
