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KDialog
Display dialog boxes from shell scripts
UtilitiesFree software· GPL-2.0-or-later
Updated 10 days agoActively maintained
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About
KDialog allows you to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax is very much inspired from the "dialog" command (which shows text mode dialogs).
Additional information
Project
- Publisher
- KDE
- License
- GPL-2.0+ (free software)What this license lets you do
- Homepage
- www.kde.org
- From the project
- Report a bugDonateDocumentation
- Latest release
- October 8, 2026 (10 days ago)Actively maintained · 10+ releases in the last year
- Release history
Last 10 releases
- 26.08.2October 8, 2026
- 26.08.1September 10, 2026
- 26.08.0August 20, 2026
- 26.04.3July 2, 2026
- 26.04.2June 4, 2026
- 26.04.1May 7, 2026
- 26.04.0April 16, 2026
- 25.12.3March 5, 2026
- 25.12.2February 5, 2026
- 25.12.1January 8, 2026
- Languages
- 86 languages
Install
- Available via
- Snap (2) · Arch Linux (2) · Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Alpine Linux · Void Linux · Slackware · Solus · Gentoo · Nixpkgs
All 14 packagings
Snap Store, Snap Store (Beta build), AUR (Git build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Slackware, Solus, Gentoo (Candidate build)
About this data
- Sources
- Sources disagree on the license
- Catalog data as of
- October 12, 2026
How each source lists it (14)
| Source | Name | Version | Built by | License | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snap Store | KDialog | 26.04.3 | — | GPL-2.0+ | Display dialog boxes from shell scripts |
| Snap Store (Beta build) | KDialog | 26.04.3 | — | GPL-2.0+ | Display dialog boxes from shell scripts |
| AUR (Git build) | kdialog-git | 24.04.70_r1478.g33d49400b-1 | — | LGPL-2.0-or-later | A utility for displaying dialog boxes from shell scripts |
| Debian | kdialog | 4:25.04.0-1 | Distribution build | — | Dialog display utility |
| Ubuntu | kdialog | 4:25.12.3-0ubuntu1 | Distribution build | — | Dialog display utility |
| Fedora | kdialog | 26.08.1 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Callaway-GFDL | Nice dialog boxes from shell scripts |
| Arch Linux | kdialog | 26.08.2-1 | Distribution build | LGPL-2.0-or-later | A utility for displaying dialog boxes from shell scripts |
| Nixpkgs | kdialog | 26.08.2 | Distribution build | CC0-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-or-later | Tool to show nice dialog boxes from shell scripts |
| openSUSE | kdialog | 26.08.2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | KDE version of xdialog |
| Alpine Linux | kdialog | 26.04.2-r0 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later AND GFDL-1.2-only | A utility for displaying dialog boxes from shell scripts |
| Void Linux | kdialog | 26.08.1_1 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | Utility for displaying dialog boxes from shell scripts |
| Slackware | kdialog | 26.08.2-1 | Distribution build | — | kdialog (shell dialog box utility) |
| Solus | kdialog | 25.08.2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | KDialog can be used to show nice dialog boxes from shell scripts |
| Gentoo (Candidate build) | kdialog | 26.08.2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-only | Can be used to show nice dialog boxes from shell scripts |
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