How To Install libcaca0 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca0 on Kali Linux.

What is libcaca0

libcaca0 is:

libcaca is the Colour AsCii Art library. It provides high level functions for colour text drawing, simple primitives for line, polygon and ellipse drawing, as well as powerful image to text conversion routines.

This package contains the shared library for libcaca.

There are three methods to install libcaca0 on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libcaca0 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libcaca0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcaca0

Install libcaca0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcaca0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcaca0

Install libcaca0 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libcaca0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcaca0

How To Uninstall libcaca0 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libcaca0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcaca0

Uninstall libcaca0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcaca0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcaca0

Remove libcaca0 Configurations and Data

To remove libcaca0 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcaca0

Remove libcaca0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcaca0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcaca0

Dependencies

libcaca0 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libncursesw6
• libslang2
• libstdc++6
• libtinfo6
• zlib1g

References

• libcaca0 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaca0 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.