How To Install libcaca on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca on CentOS 7.
What is libcaca
libcaca is the Colour AsCii Art library. It provides high level functions for color text drawing, simple primitives for line, polygon and ellipse drawing, as well as powerful image to text conversion routines.
We can use yum or dnf to install libcaca on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcaca.
Install libcaca on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libcaca using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libcaca
Install libcaca 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 libcaca using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libcaca
How To Uninstall libcaca on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libcaca package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libcaca
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.