Installation

Contents

• Package manager
  • PSGallery
  • Scoop
  • Chocolatey
• Manual

Package manager

PSGallery

This is the recommended way to install Winfetch, using PowerShell Gallery - it offers the fastest execution speed and allows tab-completion of arguments. It is also recommended to add the second line to the respective PowerShell $PROFILE, to make calling Winfetch easier.

> Install-Script -Name pwshfetch-test-1
> Set-Alias winfetch pwshfetch-test-1    # Put this in $PROFILE

Note: The package name is currently temporary. It will be updated to kiedtl-winfetch in due time.

Scoop

Winfetch can be installed with Scoop:

> scoop install winfetch

Chocolatey

Winfetch can be installed with Chocolatey:

> choco install winfetch -y

Manual

For people who are allergic to package managers.

Note: By not installing Winfetch via a package manager, you will not be able to automatically update Winfetch. Each time a new version is released, you will have to go through these steps again.

Using git

First, clone this repository:

$ git clone [email protected]:kiedtl/winfetch.git

Reset the repository to the latest release:

$ cd winfetch
$ git reset --hard v0.0.0

Then, move the winfetch.ps1 file to somewhere on your PATH:

$ mv .\winfetch.ps1 ~\.local\bin\

Using powershell

To download the script directly use:

# download development version
Invoke-WebRequest "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kiedtl/winfetch/master/winfetch.ps1" -OutFile ~\.local\bin\winfetch.ps1 -UseBasicParsing

# download a specific version
Invoke-WebRequest "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kiedtl/winfetch/v2.0.0/winfetch.ps1" -OutFile ~\.local\bin\winfetch.ps1 -UseBasicParsing

To execute winfetch directly without saving the file to disk use:

Invoke-WebRequest "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kiedtl/winfetch/master/winfetch.ps1" -UseBasicParsing | Invoke-Expression

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Legacy systems

Run this command in cmd.exe to download the batch file (for systems that can't run PowerShell 5+):

bitsadmin /transfer winfetchjob /download /priority foreground "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kiedtl/winfetch/legacy/winfetch.bat" "C:\your\path\here\winfetch.bat"