Issued:
2009-10-07
Updated:
2010-03-30

RHBA-2009:1482 - newt bug fix update

Synopsis

newt bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated newt packages that resolve several issues are now available.

Description

Newt is a programming library for color text-mode, widget-based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, check boxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, and so on, to text mode user interfaces.

These updated newt packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

  • the whiptail(1) man page was missing from the newt package, and is now included. (BZ#456307)

  • newt did not recognize the escape sequence "\E[Z" as the Shift+Tab key combination on VT320 terminals, and incorrectly interpreted it as "Escape". With these updated packages, newt correctly interprets "\E[Z" as Shift+Tab. (BZ#468046)

All users of newt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • newt-devel-0.52.2-15.el5.ia64.rpm
  • newt-0.52.2-15.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • newt-0.52.2-15.el5.src.rpm
  • newt-0.52.2-15.el5.s390.rpm
  • newt-devel-0.52.2-15.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • newt-0.52.2-15.el5.s390x.rpm
  • newt-0.52.2-15.el5.ia64.rpm
  • newt-0.52.2-15.el5.ppc.rpm
  • newt-devel-0.52.2-15.el5.s390.rpm
  • newt-0.52.2-15.el5.i386.rpm
  • newt-0.52.2-15.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • newt-devel-0.52.2-15.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • newt-devel-0.52.2-15.el5.i386.rpm
  • newt-devel-0.52.2-15.el5.ppc.rpm
  • newt-devel-0.52.2-15.el5.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information