Asciiville

ASCII Art, Animation, and Utilities

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NAME

ascinit - Asciiville initialization script

SYNOPSIS

ascinit [-a] [-c] [-d] [-m] [-M] [-n] [-N] [-q] [-r] [-y] [-u] [arg]

DESCRIPTION

The ascinit command should be run as a normal user with sudo privilege after installing Asciiville. It performs several configuration initializations for the user. These include:

• The Kitty terminal emulator is installed and configured
• The Neovim text editor is installed and configured
• Mutt and/or NeoMutt startup files are customized
• Tmux configuration is created
• default Ranger and Rifle configuration files are created
• Asciimatics installation is performed
• Optionally additional terminal emulators can be installed and configured
• Asciiville profiles in Gnome and Tilix terminals are created, if installed

Although command line options are provided to control the action(s) of the ascinit command (see below), the typical invocation will simply be ascinit with no options. This default invocation performs a NeoMutt configuration, does not configure Mutt, configures Tmux and Ranger and Rifle, installs Asciimatics if not already installed, installs the Kitty terminal emulator, installs the Neovim text editor, installs ASCII games, and creates an Asciiville profile in gnome-terminal and tilix if installed.

If initialization is being performed on a headless system or a system without graphical capabilities then execute the command ascinit -c rather than ascinit. When invoked with the -c option the ascinit command will not install the terminal emulators or create the terminal profiles.

A minimal initialization can be performed with the command:

ascinit minimal

The “minimal” Asciiville initialization does not install optional components like NeoMutt, Neovim, Ascii games, cbftp, and aewan. These components can be installed subsequently by rerunning ascinit without arguments.

An initialization can be performed using Homebrew rather than the native package manager with the command:

ascinit brew

In addition to initialization of Asciiville components, ascinit can be used to individually install and remove the ASCII games, Kitty terminal emulator, and Neovim text editor. To install one of these components, issue the command:

ascinit <component>

where component is one of games, kitty, or neovim. To remove one of these componenents, run:

ascinit -r <component>

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

-a

indicates ask to play an animation when done

-c

indicates console-only mode, no terminal emulators are installed or configured and several mailcap configurations specifically tailored for console use are installed

-d

indicates debug mode

-m

indicates setup user Mutt configuration

-M

indicates setup both Mutt and NeoMutt configurations

-n

indicates setup user NeoMutt configuration

-N

indicates prompt for installation of additional terminal emulators

-q

indicates quiet mode, messages are suppressed. In quiet mode initialization all Asciiville components are installed.

-r

indicates remove service/package

-y

indicates answer yes to all prompts except tmux configuration

-u

indicates display this usage message and exit

AUTHORS

Written by Ronald Record github@ronrecord.com

LICENSING

ASCINIT is distributed under an Open Source license. See the file LICENSE in the ASCINIT source distribution for information on terms & conditions for accessing and otherwise using ASCINIT and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.

BUGS

Submit bug reports online at:

https://github.com/doctorfree/Asciiville/issues

SEE ALSO

asciiart(1), asciimpplus(1), asciiplasma(1), asciisplash(1), asciisplash-tmux(1), asciiville(1)

Full documentation and sources at:

https://github.com/doctorfree/Asciiville