Information about the package, caca-utils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The caca-utils package is designed for, Colour AsCii Art Text mode graphics utilities based on libcaca.
Package Name:
caca-utils
Summary:
Colour AsCii Art Text mode graphics utilities based on libcaca
Description:
This package contains utilities and demonstration programs for libcaca, the Colour AsCii Art library. cacaview is a simple image viewer for the terminal. It opens most image formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF etc. and renders them on the terminal using ASCII art. The user can zoom and scroll the image, set the dithering method or enable anti-aliasing. cacaball is a tiny graphic program that renders animated ASCII metaballs on the screen, cacafire is a port of AALib's aafire and displays burning ASCII art flames, and cacademo is a simple application that shows the libcaca rendering features such as line and ellipses drawing, triangle filling and sprite blitting.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.99
Release:
0.9.beta16.el6
Size:
65 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
WTFPL
Control the caca-utils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install caca-utils
This command will install caca-utils on the server.
yum remove caca-utils
This command will un-install caca-utils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove caca-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove caca-utils
This command will un-install caca-utils on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove caca-utils when using the -y flag.
yum update caca-utils
This command will update caca-utils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove caca-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update caca-utils
This command will update caca-utils to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove caca-utils when using the -y flag.
yum info caca-utils
This command will show you core information about the caca-utils package.
yum deplist caca-utils
This command will show you the dependencies for caca-utils. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update caca-utils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on caca-utils. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.