How to Install and Uninstall aview Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: October 06,2024

1. Install "aview" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install aview on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                aview
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "aview" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall aview on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                aview
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the aview package on Kali Linux

Package: aview
Version: 1.3.0rc1-9.2
Installed-Size: 90
Maintainer: Uwe Hermann
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Suggests: imagemagick, netpbm
Size: 25844
SHA256: e422c6421e43301881a763a3de83413bb8054667d0f13c7a2d7df0b4ffb8bcfb
SHA1: 2022ac19c293aadfb92d21e6f3bf95daf56b50c8
MD5sum: 5f4648155fb0a78e47f3d0082a42ec03
Description: A high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player
aview is a high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player. It is
especially useful with a text-based browser such as lynx, links or w3m.
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It supports the pnm, pgm, pbm and ppm image formats, as well as
the FLI and FLC video formats. It also supports output via stdio,
(n)curses and S-Lang and even has support for gpm.
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Features
* High quality ASCII art rendering
* Portable
* Save into many formats (HTML, text, ANSI, more/less etc...)
* Contrast, Bright, Gamma control
* Image zooming/unzooming
* Three dithering modes
* Hidden "bonus" features :)
* Inversion
* Support for bright, dim, inverse attributes/extended character set
Description-md5:
Homepage: http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aview/
Tag: interface::text-mode, role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses,
use::playing, use::viewing, works-with::audio, works-with::video
Section: video
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/aview/aview_1.3.0rc1-9.2_amd64.deb