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Curtice Gough
Asked: 2017-06-21 09:29:54 +0800 CST

How do I install asciiquarium?

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How do I install and run asciiquarium in Ubuntu? It seems kind of complicated, and I don't know how to compile source code.

16.04

2 Answers

  1. No compiling is required as there is a PPA that I believe is run by a Debian developer dedicated solely to asciiquarium. Open a Terminal window and paste the following two commands:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ytvwld/asciiquarium
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install asciiquarium

    And then the application is yours to run:

    enter image description here

    Enjoy :)

    Note: This PPA now has packages available for all versions of Ubuntu from Precise to Cosmic!

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  2. Best Answer

    These instructions will work for Ubuntu 12.04 and later.

    Install term-animation

    First, you need to install Perl module called term-animation. Open a command-line terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T.

    First, type

    sudo apt install libcurses-perl

    This will install the program that will run perl scripts on your system.

    Next, run

    cd /tmp

    to change your working directory to /tmp, this is the folder where temporary files are stored.

    After you are in /tmp, you are going to have to download the source code for term-animation. To do this, type

    wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KB/KBAUCOM/Term-Animation-2.6.tar.gz

    Extract the tarball you just downloaded by running this command:

    tar -zxvf Term-Animation-2.6.tar.gz

    Change your working directory to the folder you just extracted (NOTE: if you ever forget where your working directory is, simply type pwd).

    cd Term-Animation-2.6

    Next, you are going to run the perl script "Makefile.PL"

    perl Makefile.PL &&  make &&   make test

    (The && operator separates commands)

    Finally, we can finish installing term-animation by running this command

    sudo make install

    Download and install Asciiquarium

    Once again, we are going to change our working directory to /tmp.

    cd /tmp

    Now we are going to download the perl script that runs asciiquarium.

    wget --no-check-certificate http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/asciiquarium.tar.gz

    Extract the tarball you downloaded.

    tar -zxvf asciiquarium.tar.gz

    Now change the working directory to the folder you extracted.

    cd asciiquarium_1.1

    Next, we need to copy the perl script to /usr/local/bin where all of the executable commands are.

    sudo cp asciiquarium /usr/local/bin/

    Finally, to be allowed to run asciiquarium, you need to give yourself permission to execute the perl script.

    sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/asciiquarium

    Running asciiquarium

    To watch asciiquarium in your terminal, simply type

    asciiquarium

    Asciiquarium v1.1

    Simply press CTRL+C to stop the animation.

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