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This wiki page will guide you through getting neofetch working on your system.

The first and most universal way of installing neofetch is by downloading/cloning the latest release and running the Makefile.

Table of Contents

Universal Install

Latest Release

  1. Download the latest release.
  2. Run make install inside the script directory to install the script.
    • MacOS: 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
    • MacOS: 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
    • pkg update
  2. Install the package
    • pkg 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 / OpenMandriva

Neofetch is in Fedora's official repositories starting from Fedora 27.

  • sudo dnf install neofetch

Alternatively, you can use a third-party repo:

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

FreeBSD

Install it from the official pkg repository:

  • sudo pkg 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/iPadOS

Jailbreaks with the Procursus Repo

  1. Just install neofetch from your perfered package manager e.g. Sileo

Jailbreaks without the Procursus Repo

  1. Add this repo to your package manager e.g. Cydia
    • https://repo.packix.com/
  2. Install NeoFetch-iOS from your package manager

NOTE: The package on Packix isn’t the official release, and seems offline by 2020-04-14. Device MUST be jailbroken!

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

NOTE: The third party PPA has been deprecated and could be deleted anytime without notice.

Void Linux

Install it from the official repositories

  • sudo xbps-install -S neofetch

openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed

Install it from the official repositories.

  • sudo zypper install neofetch

Windows

Install it from the Scoop.

  • scoop install neofetch
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