[libcaca] Setting up libcaca

["Cruncher" <cruncher@bosak.freeserve.co.uk>]

Is there a beginner's guide to setting up libcaca under Debian?
I've downloaded the packages and can run 

dpkg -i  <name of archive>

to install, and I can probably work out how to get the right versions of the various things it depends on.

But how exactly do I then get sdl to use it?

The libcaca page says the following, but I don't really understand it:
This simple patch was quickly hacked from the AAlib video driver. Apply it to the libSDL sources and configuree libSDL with --enable-video-caca. Then use the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to run your SDL programs with libcaca output, for instance Frozen Bubble: 

  SDL_VIDEODRIVER=caca frozen-bubble 



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