cacafire command not found

Introduction

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

cacafire: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cacafire: command not found

Solutions to cacafire: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cacafire is provided by caca-utils package.

caca-utils is:

This package contains utilities and demonstration programs for libcaca, the Colour AsCii Art library.

cacaview is a simple image viewer for the terminal. It opens most image formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF etc. and renders them on the terminal using ASCII art. The user can zoom and scroll the image, set the dithering method or enable anti-aliasing.

cacafire is a port of AALib’s aafire and displays burning ASCII art flames.

cacademo is a tiny graphic program that renders animated ASCII metaballs, matrix effects, colourful moiré circles and old school plasma effects.

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

sudo apt-get -y install caca-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install caca-utils.

sudo apt -y install caca-utils

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

sudo aptitude install caca-utils

Summary

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