How To Install libcaca on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca on Rocky Linux 8. libcaca is Library for Colour AsCii Art, text mode graphics

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcaca.

Install libcaca on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install libcaca

Install libcaca on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install libcaca

How To Uninstall libcaca on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libcaca

libcaca Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/832260913d2b3511d86e27be07b8821e571ee2
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/be9ccfa6e908fa6eff90ac68343af57d5b51be
/usr/lib64/libcaca++.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcaca++.so.0.99.19
/usr/lib64/libcaca.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcaca.so.0.99.19
/usr/share/doc/libcaca
/usr/share/doc/libcaca/COPYING

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.