How To Install catimg on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install catimg on Kali Linux. catimg is fast image printing in to your terminal

Introduction

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

What is catimg

catimg is:

catimg is a little program written in C with no dependencies that prints images in terminal. It supports JPEG, PNG, ICO and GIF formats.

You will need a 256 color terminal in order to use this program. For higher resolution images, you need unicode support.

There are three methods to install catimg 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 catimg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install catimg

Install catimg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install catimg

Install catimg 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 catimg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install catimg

How To Uninstall catimg on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove catimg

Uninstall catimg And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove catimg

Remove catimg Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge catimg

Remove catimg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge catimg

Dependencies

catimg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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