How to Install and Uninstall aview Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "aview" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install aview on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall aview on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: aview
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 124
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Uwe Hermann
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3.0rc1-9
Depends: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5), libc6 (>= 2.7)
Suggests: imagemagick, netpbm
Filename: pool/universe/a/aview/aview_1.3.0rc1-9_amd64.deb
Size: 29402
MD5sum: 58da9c6c9630d8b725b67ec477db651d
SHA1: e30652f84707a092143efe525690c8570a594fbc
SHA256: 4bb9ed4f34c4a77e6d7e1583222a2bd9af0379322963fb8be340781152d7bcf5
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
Homepage: http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aview/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu