I found the name of the Debian CLI menu system. It is "pdmenu" written by Joey Hess, [email protected]
It's at this URL: pdmenu (joeyh.name) Pdmenu is a full screen menuing system for Unix. It is designed to be easy to use, and is suitable as a login shell for inexperienced users, or it can just be ran at the command line as a handy menu. Pdmenu features color support and GPM mouse support at the Linux console. It was developed on Linux, and has now been compiled on many other unixes without problems. I was prompted to write Pdmenu when I took a look at a shell script that used dialog to generate similar menus. The shell script was huge, complicated, and ugly, and had to be modified manually to add anything to the menu. I hope that Pdmenu is better. But pdmenu 1.26 - even though it was used in Vinux based on Debian - isn't accessible, but it's a nice menu. There's an article about navigating pdmenu through ssh here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33234520/how-to-navigate-on-console-menu-pdmenu-over-ssh-from-python He says it's in Debian packages, but alas, it's been removed but it's here: git://git.joeyh.name/pdmenu Best wishes, David On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 3:16 PM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > How do users install a basic Debian Command Line Interface (CLI) system > with networking and NO Desktop Environmens or Desktop Manager installed? > > For years Debian had a CLI manager that gave us choices of different > command line programs. I thought the Default install marked Debian was > that but it isn't, it now installs a graphical user interface which I do > not want. > > How do I install a speaking Text mode system CLI with networking, nmcli > and nmtui and what is the name of the old shell that used to give us a > command line menu for Internet and other programs, it was a TUI program. > > Regards, > > David >
