asciiview command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix asciiview command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

asciiview: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: asciiview: command not found

Solutions to asciiview: command not found

How To Fix asciiview: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu asciiview is provided by aview package.

aview is:

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.

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.

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

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install aview

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install aview.

sudo apt -y install aview

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install aview

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix asciiview command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.