How To Install caca-utils on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install caca-utils in Fedora 36. caca-utils is Colour AsCii Art Text mode graphics utilities based on libcaca

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install caca-utils on Fedora 36.

What is `caca-utils`

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. cacaball is a tiny graphic program that renders animated ASCII metaballs on the screen, cacafire is a port of AALib’s aafire and displays burning ASCII art flames, and cacademo is a simple application that shows the libcaca rendering features such as line and ellipses drawing, triangle filling and sprite blitting.

We can use yum or dnf to install caca-utils on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install caca-utils.

Install caca-utils on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install caca-utils

Install caca-utils on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install caca-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install caca-utils

How To Uninstall caca-utils on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the caca-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove caca-utils

caca-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/cacaclock
/usr/bin/cacademo
/usr/bin/cacafire
/usr/bin/cacaplay
/usr/bin/cacaserver
/usr/bin/cacaview
/usr/bin/img2txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/d509d91e4d6aaae4bd2db661b533133a87f89c
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/163835182e9a5d7ddffb1a65b456c0c5e175a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/5b61a2cde76ddfe11012d77190a64bd9c5ffdf
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/87bc2a6e8de6df9f598f1b8c752f80141d3fa4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/7b6647890d4f63c15703a78b9bac29bab19f99
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/01cc5d0699d219f80868982181baba27d9e857
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/828ee581455e6e13035b927f0dbb9764c133d9
/usr/share/doc/caca-utils
/usr/share/doc/caca-utils/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/caca-utils/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/caca-utils/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/caca-utils/COPYING.ISC
/usr/share/doc/caca-utils/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/doc/caca-utils/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/caca-utils/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/caca-utils/README
/usr/share/doc/caca-utils/THANKS
/usr/share/libcaca
/usr/share/libcaca/caca.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/cacademo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cacafire.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cacaplay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cacaserver.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cacaview.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/img2txt.1.gz

References

caca-utils website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install caca-utils on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).