How To Install Cacademo In Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS?

How To Install Cacademo In Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS?

cacademo

text mode graphics utilities

Maintainer: Sam Hocevar



Section: utils

Install cacademo

  • Debian apt-get install caca-utils Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install caca-utils Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add libcaca Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S libcaca Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install caca-utils Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install caca-utils Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install caca-utils Click to copy
  • macOS brew install libcaca Click to copy

caca-utils

text mode graphics utilities

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. cacafire is a port of AALib's aafire and displays burning ASCII art flames. cacademo is a tiny graphic program that renders animated ASCII metaballs, matrix effects, colourful moiru00e9 circles and old school plasma effects.

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.

Installation of latest cacademo command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian and macOS. You can copy the command for your OS from above and paste it into your terminal. Once you run the command it will download the 2026 latest package from the repository and install it in your computer/server.