How To Install asciinema on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install asciinema on Ubuntu.
What is asciinema
asciinema is:
Forget screen recording apps and blurry video. Enjoy a lightweight, purely text based approach to terminal recording.
This package provides a command line recorder for asciinema.org service or other instance of asciinema server.
There are three methods to install asciinema on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install asciinema Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install asciinema using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install asciinema
Install asciinema Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install asciinema using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install asciinema
Install asciinema Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install asciinema using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install asciinema
How To Uninstall asciinema on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the asciinema package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove asciinema
Uninstall asciinema And Its Dependencies
To uninstall asciinema and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove asciinema
Remove asciinema Configurations and Data
To remove asciinema configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge asciinema
Remove asciinema configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove asciinema configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge asciinema
Dependencies
asciinema have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install asciinema package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.