How To Install aview on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aview on Debian 10.
What is aview
aview is:
aview is a high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player. It is especially useful with a text-based browser such as lynx, links or w3m.
It supports the pnm, pgm, pbm and ppm image formats, as well as the FLI and FLC video formats. It also supports output via stdio, (n)curses and S-Lang and even has support for gpm.
Features
- High quality ASCII art rendering
- Portable
- Save into many formats (HTML, text, ANSI, more/less etc…)
- Contrast, Bright, Gamma control
- Image zooming/unzooming
- Three dithering modes
- Hidden “bonus” features :)
- Inversion
- Support for bright, dim, inverse attributes/extended character set
There are three methods to install aview on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install aview Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install aview using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aview
Install aview Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aview using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aview
Install aview Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install aview using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aview
How To Uninstall aview on Debian 10
To uninstall only the aview package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aview
Uninstall aview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aview
Remove aview Configurations and Data
To remove aview configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aview
Remove aview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aview configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aview
Dependencies
aview have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aview package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.