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1. Thank you.nice!
   You need to cd to asciiquarium after tar -zxvf asciiquarium.tar.gz

2. cpan install Term::Animation

3. That’s cool 🙂

4. How can I compile rpm for CentOS 5.5?

   1. Cent OS users, try:
      yum install perl-Curses
      instead of
      sudo apt-get install libcurses-perl

      Worked for me 🙂

5. There is nothing about libcurses-perl in CentOS yum programme.where can i get it?

   1. See comment # 5

6. Debian / Ubuntu
   dh-make-perl –build –cpan Term::Animation

   1. Forgot, then afterwards dpkg -i libterm-animation-perl_2.4-1_all.deb

7. As I know, in rpm-based OSes it’s preferable to build rpm with rpm-build and than install it.

8. Nice. Someone must have been really bored to do this…

   If anyone asks – in OpenSuse 11.3 you need to add the CPAN repository (if you don’t have it):

   sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/perl/openSUSE_11.3 perl

   and install perl-Curses (for some reason the package name is different than in Ubuntu):

   sudo zypper install perl-Curses

   Have fun!

9. FYI: There is a slight difference between ASCII and ANSI. 😉

   1. Strictly speaking this is a curses animation, it will work over any terminal with a proper curses descriptor not just an ANSI terminal.

10. Cool, I see it is already installed by default in my KDE (Mandriva Linux). Love it.

11. Just a small detail: chances are you are not the owner of the file you just sudo cp’d into /usr/local/bin, so you won’t have the necessary permissions to chmod at the end. It should be ‘sudo chmod’.

    A great find. Thanks.

12. Wow nice 🙂
    Thanks!

    I want this as screensaver, does anybody has a solution to do this?

13. Cool, Thanks for tip 🙂

14. Any idea how to Install Term::Animation on Fedora 14?
    The perl ‘Makefile.PL && make && make test’ fails with message:
    BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 2.

    When I looked at this line I see:
    use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
    Then I installed the perl-MakeMaker-5.41-10.i386.rpm package from:
    http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/12105913/dir/redhat_7.x/com/perl-MakeMaker-5.41-10.i386.rpm.html

    Ok. Installed without errors.
    Now I tried again ‘Makefile.PL && make && make test’
    And again it complains about BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 2.

    Any ideas? Thanks in advance

    1. I don’t have a Fedora system to test on, but you might want to try looking for a perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker package.

       1. Thanks for your suggestion, but after that I’ve got still the same error message.

          1. you need to install Test::Pod – cpan get Test::pod

             1. Thanks. Finally it is working now!

15. Glad you guys like it! I have a similar program that displays a scene based on the weather:
    http://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/

    If you have any problems or suggestions, let me know.

    In addition to the KDE screensaver version, there’s now a live wallpaper for Android ported by Claudio Matsuoka:
    http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/org.helllabs.android.asciiquarium/Asciiquarium-Live-Wallpaper

16. Is possible ascii aquarium in motd on ssh?

    Thanks.

17. Thx For Your post

18. Redhat distro’s can also use “CheckInstall” to create an rpm package from the source code. Check out http://checkinstall.izto.org/ for more information. This should already be included in the latest CentOS repo’s. Works very well and allows one to easily remove the application with your package manager as well.

19. that’s cool

20. That’s very nice.

    10 points for your “bash street credibility” 🙂

21. That’s very funny ^^
    Thank you very much

22. THis is really neat. LOve it>>>>

    Jaysunn

23. Not sure if posted. For OSX. I became root and issued the command:

    prompt>cpan

    I then accepted all the default prompts.

    Then I ran

    cpan>install Term::Animation

    Then I ran:
    shine:~ jasonralph$ asciiquarium

    Since it was in my path the binary ran perfectly.
    Afer that I was able to see the coolness. Very sweet.

    Jaysunn

24. This is awesome! I turned all my tty1~6 into this aqarium xD

25. can u tell, how must I do after I get this message : BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 2. I used fedora, thanks

26. “cd asciiquarium_1.0/”
    needs to be
    “cd asciiquarium_1.1/”
    They updated it.

27. Can it be made as a screen saver..?

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