How To Install libcaca-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca-devel on CentOS 7. libcaca-devel is Development files for libcaca, the library for Colour AsCii Art

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca-devel on CentOS 7.

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcaca-devel.

Install libcaca-devel 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-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcaca-devel

Install libcaca-devel 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcaca-devel

How To Uninstall libcaca-devel on CentOS 7

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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.