How To Install libcaca-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcaca-dev
libcaca-dev is:
libcaca is the Colour AsCii Art library. It provides high level functions for colour text drawing, simple primitives for line, polygon and ellipse drawing, as well as powerful image to text conversion routines.
This package contains the header files and static libraries needed to compile applications or shared objects that use libcaca.
Package: libcaca-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.99.beta19-2.1ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: libdevel Source: libcaca Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Sam Hocevar [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 3023 Depends: libcaca0 (= 0.99.beta19-2.1ubuntu1), libslang2-dev Filename: pool/main/libc/libcaca/libcaca-dev_0.99.beta19-2.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 757704 MD5sum: 45aa3a9ac40f5757907ce3ac31b5d30d SHA1: bb4b638ec2d0047f2ac7b07e4917e8c86c0ca6c1 SHA256: bf5fcdcfe167fcf8effd9b26f53d738011835dd44dea23c0a56a5126021b4569 Homepage: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca Description-en: development files for libcaca libcaca is the Colour AsCii Art library. It provides high level functions for colour text drawing, simple primitives for line, polygon and ellipse drawing, as well as powerful image to text conversion routines.
This package contains the header files and static libraries needed to compile applications or shared objects that use libcaca.
There are three methods to install libcaca-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcaca-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcaca-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcaca-dev
Install libcaca-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcaca-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcaca-dev
Install libcaca-dev 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 libcaca-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcaca-dev
How To Uninstall libcaca-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcaca-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcaca-dev
Uninstall libcaca-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcaca-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcaca-dev
Remove libcaca-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libcaca-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcaca-dev
Remove libcaca-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcaca-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcaca-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.