How To Install libcaca-devel on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca-devel on AlmaLinux 8.
What is libcaca-devel
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. This package contains the header files and static libraries needed to compile applications or shared objects that use libcaca.
We can use yum or dnf to install libcaca-devel on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcaca-devel.
Install libcaca-devel on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install libcaca-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libcaca-devel
Install libcaca-devel on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install libcaca-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libcaca-devel
How To Uninstall libcaca-devel on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the libcaca-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libcaca-devel
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca-devel on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.