Install Cacaplay On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS

Install Cacaplay On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS

cacaplay

text mode graphics utilities

Maintainer: Sam Hocevar



Section: utils

Install cacaplay

  • 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.

Installing cacaplay command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian and macOS operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of cacaplay 2026 package in your OS.