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It is a terminal application. Therefore you need to open a terminal emulator and launch the executable by typing its name. In our case, this would most likely be cordless. If the executable can be found, it'll be started. If it can't be found, that's probably because it isn't on your PATH. This is an environment variable that references all folders, that your system searches through when you pass an executable name that isn't an absolute path.
This is one of the most common questions and the short answer is No.
The long answer is, that this feature wouldn't be possible in a cross-platform way. This counts for both terminal compatibility and system compatibility.
Terminals weren't initially intended to be able to display images, but only plain text.
While there are a couple of solutions, such as ueberzug, w3m and probably others.
Those only work on linux (and maybe BSD and Mac OS?), but even there not on all terminals.
While there have been efforts to make a format for images in terminals called Sixel, this
has the same issues as ueberzug and w3m.
Overall I am therefore against adding this feature, as a well made cross-platform solution isn't really possible at the current point in time.
A workaround would be the idea proposed in: