How To Install icat on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install icat on CentOS 7. icat is Output images in terminal

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icat on CentOS 7.

What is icat

Outputs an image on a 256-color or 24-bit color enabled terminal with UTF-8 locale, such as gnome-terminal, konsole or rxvt-unicode (urxvt).

We can use yum or dnf to install icat on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icat.

Install icat on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install icat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install icat

Install icat on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install icat

How To Uninstall icat on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove icat

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icat on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.