How To Install aview on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install aview on Kali Linux. aview is A high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aview on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aview

Remove aview Configurations and Data

To remove aview configuration and data from Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.