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A command line tool written in ruby that displays ascii art of famous animated fictional characters.
=> Homebrew (for macOS)
=> ruby version >= 1.8.6 (pre-installed on macOS, can be easily installed on linux)
=> ImageMagick library (will be installed in next section)
Run the following commands after (without the '$' sign) ruby has been installed succesfully
$ echo "export GEM_HOME=$HOME/.gem" >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo "export GEM_PATH=$HOME/.gem" >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo "export PATH=$PATH:~/.gem/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc
$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagickwand-dev
$ gem install fictionArt
Run the following commands (without the '$' sign) after ruby has been installed succesfully
$ echo "export GEM_HOME=$HOME/.gem" >> ~/.bash_profile
$ echo "export GEM_PATH=$HOME/.gem" >> ~/.bash_profile
$ echo "export PATH=$PATH:~/.gem/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
$ source ~/.bash_profile
$ brew install imagemagick@6 && brew link imagemagick@6 --force
$ gem install fictionArt
Example
$ fictionArt ironman
Output
$ fictionArt -h
FAQs
Unknown package
We found that fictionArt demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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