Information about the package, libcaca, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libcaca package is designed for, Library for Colour AsCii Art, text mode graphics.
Package Name:
libcaca
Summary:
Library for Colour AsCii Art, text mode graphics
Description:
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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.99
Release:
0.9.beta16.el6
Size:
183 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
WTFPL
Control the libcaca package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libcaca
This command will install libcaca on the server.
yum remove libcaca
This command will un-install libcaca on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libcaca, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libcaca
This command will un-install libcaca 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 libcaca when using the -y flag.
yum update libcaca
This command will update libcaca to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libcaca, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libcaca
This command will update libcaca 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 libcaca when using the -y flag.
yum info libcaca
This command will show you core information about the libcaca package.
yum deplist libcaca
This command will show you the dependencies for libcaca. 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 libcaca
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libcaca. 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.