This shows the currently figlet is not installed
No manual entry for figlet
Command 'figlet' not found, but can be installed with
apt install figlet
apt install toilet
See 'snap info figlet' for additional versions.
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Engine for use FIGlet fonts to rendering text
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Console-based presentation software
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Python port of the FIGlet specification
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display large colourful characters in text mode
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collection of TOIlet fonts
To get a list of all options for the apt utility
apt 1.6.12ubuntu0.2 (amd64)
Usage: apt [options] command
apt is a commandline package manager and provides commands for
searching and managing as well as querying information about packages.
It provides the same functionality as the specialized APT tools,
like apt-get and apt-cache, but enables options more suitable for
interactive use by default.
Most used commands
list - list packages based on package names
search - search in package descriptions
show - show package details
install - install packages
remove - remove packages
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See apt(8) for more information about the available commands.
Configuration options and syntax is detailed in apt.conf(5).
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To install with less previliage, you will get Permission denied
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
This time, we run the same command with sudo access higher permission
sudo apt install figlet
[sudo] password for Deverloper1:
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The following NEW packages will be installed
figlet
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 52 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 752 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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Will run for a bit and installed successfully.
Here is the result after installation completed successfully
/usr/bin/figlet
figlet: /usr/bin/figlet /usr/share/figlet /usr/share/man/man6/figlet.6.gz
'vi': unknown terminal type.
vi
xterm-256color
/usr/bin/figlist
To get a manual page for the command figlet after installation completed
The output is not shown here, you can run it yourself if need to as homework.
figlist
Default font: standard
Font directory: /usr/share/figlet
Figlet fonts in this directory
banner
big
block
bubble
digital
ivrit
lean
mini
mnemonic
script
shadow
slant
small
smscript
smshadow
smslant
standard
term
Figlet control files in this directory
646-ca2
646-ca
646-cn
646-cu
646-de
646-dk
646-es2
646-es
646-fr
646-gb
646-hu
646-irv
646-it
646-jp
646-kr
646-no2
646-no
646-pt2
646-pt
646-se2
646-se
646-yu
8859-2
8859-3
8859-4
8859-5
8859-7
8859-8
8859-9
frango
hz
ilhebrew
jis0201
koi8r
moscow
upper
ushebrew
uskata
utf8
To get a list of figfonts.
/usr/bin/figlet
/usr/bin/showfigfonts
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 996 Dec 4 2017 [01;32m/usr/bin/byobu-config[0m
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 3 14:34 [01;36m/usr/bin/figlet[0m -> /etc/alternatives/figlet
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47168 Jun 22 2017 [01;32m/usr/bin/figlet-figlet[0m
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1396 Jun 22 2017 [01;32m/usr/bin/figlist[0m
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1360 Jun 22 2017 [01;32m/usr/bin/showfigfonts[0m
/usr/bin/figlist
figlist: /usr/bin/figlist /usr/share/man/man6/figlist.6.gz
figlist
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/usr/bin
showfigfonts
/usr/bin
/usr/bin
Please click on "
man figlet to see the Manual Page for this command.
man showfigfonts to see the Manual Page for this command.
Please click on " figlet in PDF " format.
