How To Install caca-utils 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 caca-utils on Ubuntu.
What is caca-utils
caca-utils is:
This package contains utilities and demonstration programs for libcaca, the Colour AsCii Art library.
cacaview is a simple image viewer for the terminal. It opens most image formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF etc. and renders them on the terminal using ASCII art. The user can zoom and scroll the image, set the dithering method or enable anti-aliasing.
cacafire is a port of AALib’s aafire and displays burning ASCII art flames.
cacademo is a tiny graphic program that renders animated ASCII metaballs, matrix effects, colourful moiré circles and old school plasma effects.
There are three methods to install caca-utils 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 caca-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install caca-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install caca-utils
Install caca-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install caca-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install caca-utils
Install caca-utils 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 caca-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install caca-utils
How To Uninstall caca-utils on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the caca-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove caca-utils
Uninstall caca-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall caca-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove caca-utils
Remove caca-utils Configurations and Data
To remove caca-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge caca-utils
Remove caca-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove caca-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge caca-utils
Dependencies
caca-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install caca-utils package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.