How To Install libcaca on Fedora 34

libcaca is Library for Colour AsCii Art, text mode graphics Library for Colour AsCii Art, text mode graphics

Introduction

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

What is `libcaca`

libcaca is the Colour AsCii Art library. It provides high level functions for color text drawing, simple primitives for line, polygon and ellipse drawing, as well as powerful image to text conversion routines. libcaca 0.99 0.53.beta19.fc34 x86_64 229 k libcaca-0.99-0.53.beta19.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for Colour AsCii Art, text mode graphics http WTFPL libcaca is the Colour AsCii Art library. It provides high level functions for color text drawing, simple primitives for line, polygon and ellipse drawing, as well as powerful image to text conversion routines.

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

Install libcaca 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 libcaca using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcaca

Install libcaca 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 libcaca using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcaca

How To Uninstall libcaca on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libcaca

libcaca Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/22ec0a7d9f659d7aacf7cb0633bbfc6aff89b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/6df86e5498c80d888f75f19e3c54e949759e17
/usr/lib/libcaca++.so.0
/usr/lib/libcaca++.so.0.99.19
/usr/lib/libcaca.so.0
/usr/lib/libcaca.so.0.99.19
/usr/share/doc/libcaca
/usr/share/doc/libcaca/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/cbcf080a43e6223600d06cc9611fc962711b9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/0106e2a3e1e7af5da6f640ac2158c2d100cba2
/usr/lib64/libcaca++.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcaca++.so.0.99.19
/usr/lib64/libcaca.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcaca.so.0.99.19
/usr/share/doc/libcaca
/usr/share/doc/libcaca/COPYING

References

[libcaca website](http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca)

Summary

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