How to Install and Uninstall aview Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: November 26,2024

1. Install "aview" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install aview on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall aview on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: aview
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3.0rc1-9build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Uwe Hermann
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 83
Depends: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5), libc6 (>= 2.14)
Suggests: imagemagick, netpbm
Filename: pool/universe/a/aview/aview_1.3.0rc1-9build1_amd64.deb
Size: 27096
MD5sum: 45206dce591d8970623a0b5277cbe736
SHA1: 4ad92bbb0f1c03b39122f21e2850afb698c6fb2e
SHA256: 5e18592ed475cd8835972218ba314dac7793d8a3415e683f32f0116af82109cf
SHA512: e6b74228c2d1771a366491646f5bddc512fbe11e3b37d72267747a9501d8d6219f483a1dfcb0ce849370d10da7a6528034f1cc8b0ded88d4ee583bded4815e5c
Homepage: http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aview/
Description-en: 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: 2fbeb12a441ff4bf9be7b896df3babc8