Zenity is a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display GTK+ dialog boxes from the command line and shell scripts.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/zenity/3.42/zenity-3.42.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/zenity/3.42/zenity-3.42.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 876ce3ab0304ad7591736238ad97795a
Download size: 2.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
GTK+-3.24.34 and itstool-2.0.7
libnotify-0.7.12 and libxslt-1.1.35
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/zenity
Install Zenity by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dlibnotify=true .. && ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
ninja install