Neofetch – Shows Linux system information with ASCII distribution logo

Neofetch is a cross-platform and easy-to-use command line (CLI) script that collects your Linux system information and display it on the terminal next to an image, either your distributions logo or any ascii art of your choice.

Neofetch is a fast, highly customizable system info script through command line flags or the user config file. There are over 50 config options to play around with. Also it allows you to add your own custom info.

It currently supports Linux, MacOS, iOS, BSD, Solaris, Android, Haiku, GNU Hurd, MINIX, AIX, IRIX and Windows.

Suggested Read : ScreenFetch – Fetch Linux System Information on Terminal with Distribution ASCII art logo

It is similar to Screenfetch but highly customizable and offers some extra features. Make a note neofetch can be used on any OS that has BASH 3.2+

By default Neofetch can display the following Information’s.

• Model : System model number
• OS : Running Operating system name
• Kernel : Loaded kernel version
• Uptime : System uptime [DD:HH:MM]
• Packages : No of installed packages on system
• Shell : Bash Shell version
• Resolution : Monitor resolution
• DE : Running Desktop Environment name
• WM : Running Window manger name
• WM Theme : Window manger Theme name
• Theme : Theme name
• Icons : Icons set name
• Termain : Terminal details
• CPU : CPU Information
• GPU : GPU Information
• Memory : Memory utilization information

How to install Neofetch in Linux

Neofetch is not available in most of the major distribution official repository, so we needs to install from third-party repositories.

For Arch Linux based systems, Neofetch is available in AUR repository, so use either Yaourt or Packer to install it.

$ yaourt -S neofetch
or
$ yaourt -S neofetch-git

or
$ packer -S neofetch
or
$ packer -S neofetch-git

For Fedora uses, enable COPR repository to install Neofetch. Change dnf into yum for RHEL/CentOS users.

$ sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
$ sudo dnf copr enable konimex/neofetch
$ sudo dnf install neofetch

For CentOS/RHEL systems, enable EPEL repository in order to install Neofetch (Alternative method)

For CentOS/RHEL 6.

$ sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/konimex-neofetch-epel-6.repo https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/konimex/neofetch/repo/epel-6/konimex-neofetch-epel-6.repo
$ sudo yum install neofetch

For CentOS/RHEL 7.

$ sudo 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
$ sudo yum install neofetch

For Debian 9 (Stretch) users can install from distribution official repository using APT command but the repo only contains version 2.0.2, use the third-party repo to update it to.

$ sudo apt-get install neofetch

For Debian old system use third-party repo to install Neofetch

$ echo "deb http://dl.bintray.com/dawidd6/neofetch jessie main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
$ curl -L "https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=bintray" -o Release-neofetch.key && sudo apt-key add Release-neofetch.key && rm Release-neofetch.key
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install neofetch

For Ubuntu/LinuxMint 16.10 and below versions, you can add the official Neofetch PPA to install Neofetch.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dawidd0811/neofetch
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install neofetch

For Ubuntu/LinuxMint 17.04 and above, use distribution official package to install Neofetch using Apt-Get command.

$ sudo apt install neofetch

How to use Neofetch

Simply fire the neofetch command without any arguments.

$ neofetch

To print other distribution logo, use --ascii_distro flag followed by distribution name.

$ neofetch --ascii_distro gentoo

Neofetch will create a config file at $HOME/.config/neofetch/config after first run. It contains all of the script’s options/settings. Enable/Disable any functions by adding a # in front of the line. The config file allows you to add your own customization’s. You can rearrange the lines as per your wish inside the print_info() function to get desired output.

This is sample configuration file which is taken from my system.

$ vi ~/.config/neofetch/config

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Neofetch config file
# https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

# See this wiki page for more info:
# https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Customizing-Info
print_info() {
    info title
    info underline

    info "OS" distro
    info "Model" model
    info "Kernel" kernel
    info "Uptime" uptime
    info "Packages" packages
    info "Shell" shell
    info "Resolution" resolution
    info "DE" de
    info "WM" wm
    info "WM Theme" wm_theme
    info "Theme" theme
    info "Icons" icons
    info "Terminal" term
    info "Terminal Font" term_font
    info "CPU" cpu
    info "GPU" gpu
    info "Memory" memory

    # info "CPU Usage" cpu_usage
    # info "Disk" disk
    # info "Battery" battery
    # info "Font" font
    # info "Song" song
    # info "Local IP" local_ip
    # info "Public IP" public_ip
    # info "Users" users
    # info "Install Date" install_date
    # info "Locale" locale # This only works on glibc systems.

    info line_break
    info cols
    info line_break
}

Navigate to help section, to know more about Neofetch.

$ neofetch --help