Quickstart

  • Install the latest Arch, Debian, macOS, RPM, or compressed tar archive format installation package from the Asciiville Releases page

  • Run the ascinit command

    • Must be done as a normal user with sudo privilege

    • Run ascinit -c to perform a console initialization (no graphical utilities)

  • Execute the asciiville command in interactive menu mode by running asciiville -i

  • See the online asciiville man page or man asciiville for different ways to invoke the asciiville command

The asciiville command can simply take ascii art filenames as arguments and it will display them. The full filename isn’t even necessary, it will try to figure out what you mean. For example, to test whether your Asciiville installation is working, try the command:

asciiville Waterfalls/wallhaven-r768vq

This should display a waterfall rendered with characters as ascii art.