How To Install ruby-caca on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-caca on CentOS 8.
What is ruby-caca
This package contains the ruby bindings for using libcaca from ruby.
We can use yum or dnf to install ruby-caca on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ruby-caca.
Install ruby-caca on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ruby-caca using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ruby-caca
Install ruby-caca on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ruby-caca using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ruby-caca
How To Uninstall ruby-caca on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ruby-caca package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ruby-caca
ruby-caca Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/6e96ffe9aa0bce6902234a0bcb4d6fd821e51e
/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/caca.so
/usr/share/doc/ruby-caca
/usr/share/doc/ruby-caca/README
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/caca.rb
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-caca on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.