How To Install catimg on Fedora 34

catimg is Print images in a terminal with 256 colors support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install catimg on Fedora 34.

What is catimg

catimg prints images in a terminal with 256 colors support. It supports JPEG, PNG, ICO and GIF formats.

We can use yum or dnf to install catimg on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install catimg.

Install catimg on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install catimg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install catimg

Install catimg on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install catimg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install catimg

How To Uninstall catimg on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the catimg package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove catimg

catimg Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/catimg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/f9cfd6100f0fef41c7d4c46c8dcd9560565b56
/usr/share/doc/catimg
/usr/share/doc/catimg/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/catimg
/usr/share/licenses/catimg/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/catimg.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_catimg

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install catimg on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.