[CentOS] display full-screen color graphic without X

[Fred Smith]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:01:44AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:29:56 -0400
> ken wrote:
> 
> > > You probably want the fbi image viewer that comes in the fbida rpm.
> > 
> > Thanks, Frank.  But a yum search didn't turn up anything for me.  Maybe 
> > it on some repo I'm not configured for.  Do you happen to know which 
> > repo I could get it from?
> 
> Name        : fbida
> Arch        : x86_64
> Version     : 2.07
> Release     : 8.el6
> Size        : 70 k
> Repo        : epel
> Summary     : FrameBuffer Imageviewer
> URL         : http://linux.bytesex.org/fbida/
> License     : GPLv2+
> Description : fbi displays the specified file(s) on the linux console using the
>             : framebuffer device. PhotoCD, jpeg, ppm, gif, tiff, xwd, bmp and
>             : png are supported directly. For other formats fbi tries to use
>             : ImageMagick's convert.

There are Centos-compatible RPMs for it on epel:

# yum list available | grep -y fbida
fbida.x86_64                              2.07-8.el6                     epel   
fbida-fbgs.x86_64                         2.07-8.el6                     epel 

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