Linux / UNIX Desktop Fun: Terminal ASCII Aquarium

You can now enjoy mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal using ASCIIQuarium. It is an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art created using perl.

Install Term::Animation

Fedora Linux user simply run the following dnf command:
$ sudo dnf install asciiquarium

Debian/Ubuntu Linux install Terminal ASCII Aquarium

First, you need to install Perl module called Term-Animation. Open a command-line terminal (select Applications > Accessories > Terminal), and then type the following apt command:
$ sudo apt-get install libcurses-perl
Debian Linux Install GNU GCC Compiler and Development Environment as follows using the apt-get command $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Finally compile Term-Animation:
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KB/KBAUCOM/Term-Animation-2.6.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf Term-Animation-2.6.tar.gz
$ cd Term-Animation-2.6/
$ perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
$ sudo make install

Download and Install ASCIIQuarium

While still at bash prompt, type:
$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/asciiquarium.tar.gz
## Extract tar.gz file on Linux or Unix ##
$ tar -zxvf asciiquarium.tar.gz
$ cd asciiquarium_1.1/
$ sudo cp asciiquarium /usr/local/bin
$ sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/asciiquarium
Outputs:

mode of '/usr/local/bin/asciiquarium' changed from 0644 (rw-r--r--) to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)

How do I view my ASCII Aquarium on Linux?

Simply type the following command:
$ /usr/local/bin/asciiquarium
OR
$ perl /usr/local/bin/asciiquarium

(Fig.01: ASCII Aquarium [ click to enlarge ] )

Related media

Download: erminal ASCII Aquarium KDE and Mac OS X Version

Download asciiquarium. If you’re running Mac OS X, try a packaged version that will run out of the box. For KDE users, try a KDE Screensaver based on the Asciiquarium.

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