Neofetch is a command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+. Neofetch displays information about your operating system, software and hardware in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.

The overall purpose of Neofetch is to be used in screen-shots of your system. Neofetch shows the information other people want to see. There are other tools available for proper system statistic/diagnostics.

The information by default is displayed alongside your operating system’s logo. You can further configure Neofetch to instead use an image, a custom ASCII file, your wallpaper or nothing at all.

You can further configure Neofetch to display exactly what you want it to. Through the use of command-line flags and the configuration file you can change existing information outputs or add your own custom ones.

Neofetch supports almost 150 different operating systems. From Linux to Windows, all the way to more obscure operating systems like Minix, AIX and Haiku. If your favourite operating system is unsupported: Open up an issue and support will be added.

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Neofetch Installation

Latest Release

  1. Download the latest release.
  2. Run make install inside the script directory to install the script.
    • El Capitan: make PREFIX=/usr/local install
    • Haiku: make PREFIX=/boot/home/config/non-packaged install
    • OpenIndiana: gmake install
    • MinGW/MSys: make -i install
    • NOTE: You may have to run this as root.

Latest Git Master (Bleeding Edge)

  1. Git clone the repo.
    • git clone https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch
  2. Change working directory to neofetch.
    • cd neofetch
  3. Install neofetch using the Makefile.
    • make install
    • El Capitan: make PREFIX=/usr/local install
    • Haiku: make PREFIX=/boot/home/config/non-packaged install
    • OpenIndiana: gmake install
    • MinGW/MSys: make -i install
    • NOTE: You may have to run this as root.

NOTE: Neofetch can be uninstalled easily using make uninstall. This removes all of files from your system.

NOTE: You can run neofetch from any folder on your system, all the makefile does is move the files to a “sane” location. The Makefile is optional.

OS/Distro Packages

This section lists neofetch packages that have been made for specific OS/Distros.

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux v3.8 and up

  1. Update repositories
    • apk update
  2. Install the package
    • apk add neofetch

Android (Termux)

Neofetch is in Termux’s default repos.

  1. Update repositories
    • sudo apt-get update
  2. Install the package
    • sudo apt-get install neofetch

Arch

Neofetch is available in the official repos.

  • Install the package
    • pacman -S neofetch

BunsenLabs

Neofetch is available in the official repos.

  1. Update repositories
    • sudo apt-get update
  2. Install the package
    • sudo apt-get install neofetch

CRUX

  1. Install git and the git ports(8) driver
    • sudo prt-get depinst git
  2. Add the 6c36-git repository
    • sudo wget -O /etc/ports/6c37-git.git "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/6c37/cross/master/git-driver/6c37-git.git"
  3. Sync the repos
    • sudo ports -u
  4. Add the repo to /etc/prt-get.conf with your text editor of choice
    • prtdir /usr/ports/6c37-git
  5. Install the package
    • sudo prt-get depinst neofetch

Or alternatively use the port:

  1. Download port
    • wget -O ~/work/neofetch/Pkgfile "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/6c37/crux-ports-git/3.2/neofetch/Pkgfile"
  2. Build the package
    • fakeroot pkgmk -d
  3. Install the package
    • sudo pkgadd neofetch#git-*.pkg.tar.gz

Debian

Stretch / Sid (Unstable)

Neofetch is in Debian Stretch/Sid’s official repositories.

  1. Update repositories
    • sudo apt-get update
  2. Install the package
    • sudo apt-get install neofetch

NOTE: Debian stretch repo only contains version 2.0.2.

NOTE2: The third party bintray repo has been deprecated, if you want to stay up to date with neofetch on Debian stable, then you need to manually install newer packages from unstable or download neofetch directly from git repository since it’s contained in single file.

Fedora / RHEL / CentOS / Mageia

NOTE: If you are using RHEL/CentOS, change dnf into yum.

  1. Make sure you have installed dnf-plugins-core
  2. Enable COPR repository
    • sudo dnf copr enable konimex/neofetch
  3. Install the package
    • sudo dnf install neofetch

Alternatively:

  1. If you’re using RHEL/CentOS, make sure you have installed epel-release
  2. Fetch the repo file
  • curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/konimex-neofetch-epel-7.repo
    https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/konimex/neofetch/repo/epel-7/konimex-neofetch-epel-7.repo

    • NOTE: If you are using Fedora, change epel-7 to fedora-23 or your Fedora version respectively. However if you are using RHEL/CentOS 6, change it to epel-6.
  1. Install the package
    • sudo dnf install neofetch

Gentoo / Funtoo

You can install app-misc/neofetch from Gentoo/Funtoo’s official repositories.

To install the git version of neofetch, use =app-misc/neofetch-9999 instead.

GoboLinux

Install it with the official recipe.

  • sudo Compile neofetch

iOS

  1. Add http://dylanaraps.com/repo to your cydia sources.
  2. Install neofetch through cydia.

macOS (Homebrew)

  1. Install neofetch with Homebrew
    • brew install neofetch

NixOS

Install it from the official repositories

  • sudo nix-env -i neofetch

Slackware

Download the files from SlackBuilds and follow their instructions.

Solus

You can find neofetch in software center under System Software > System Utilities or type sudo eopkg it neofetch.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu 17.04 and up

Install it from the official repositories.

  1. Update repositories
    • sudo apt update
  2. Install the package
    • sudo apt install neofetch

Ubuntu 16.10 and below

  1. Add PPA
    • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dawidd0811/neofetch
  2. Update repositories
    • sudo apt update
  3. Install the package
    • sudo apt install neofetch

Ubuntu daily builds

This PPA contains daily builds of neofetch straight from master branch

  1. Add PPA
    • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dawidd0811/neofetch-daily
  2. Update repositories
    • sudo apt update
  3. Install the package
    • sudo apt install neofetch

Void Linux

Install it from the official repositories

  • sudo xbps-install -S neofetch

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