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Chafa is a command-line utility that converts all kinds of images, including
animated GIFs, into sixel or ANSI/Unicode character output that can be
displayed in a terminal.

It is highly configurable, with support for alpha transparency and multiple
color modes and color spaces, combining selectable ranges of Unicode
characters to produce the desired output.

The core functionality is provided by a C library with a public,
well-documented API.

Both library and frontend tools are covered by the Lesser GPL license,
version 3 or later (LGPLv3+).

The [official web pages](https://hpjansson.org/chafa/) and [C API
documentation](https://hpjansson.org/chafa/ref/) can be found online. Check
out the [gallery](https://hpjansson.org/chafa/gallery/) for screenshots.

## Installing

Chafa is most likely packaged for your distribution, so if you're not
going to hack on it, you're better off using
[official packages](https://hpjansson.org/chafa/download/). If you want to
build the latest and greatest yourself, read on.

You will need GCC, make, Autoconf, Automake, Libtool and the GLib
development package installed to compile Chafa from its git repository. If
you want to build the command-line tool `chafa` and not just the library,
you will additionally need the ImageMagick development packages.

If you want to build documentation, you will also need gtk-doc.

Start by cloning the repository:

```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa.git
```

Then cd to the toplevel directory and issue the following shell commands:

```sh
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make
$ sudo make install
```

That should do it!
