How To Install ruby-caca on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-caca in Fedora 36. ruby-caca is Ruby bindings for libcaca

Introduction

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

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 Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ruby-caca.

Install ruby-caca 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 ruby-caca using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ruby-caca

Install ruby-caca 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 ruby-caca using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ruby-caca

How To Uninstall ruby-caca on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ruby-caca

ruby-caca Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/a03ce117b2ad3a5a1dc9649c30b57c1651bd0c
/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

ruby-caca website

Summary

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