How To Install neofetch on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install neofetch in Fedora 36. neofetch is CLI system information tool written in Bash

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neofetch on Fedora 36.

What is neofetch

Neofetch displays information about your system next to an image, your OS logo, or any ASCII file of your choice. The main purpose of Neofetch is to be used in screenshots to show other users what OS/distribution you’re running, what theme/icons you’re using and more.

We can use yum or dnf to install neofetch on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install neofetch.

Install neofetch on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install neofetch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install neofetch

Install neofetch on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install neofetch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install neofetch

How To Uninstall neofetch on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the neofetch package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove neofetch

neofetch Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/neofetch
/usr/share/doc/neofetch
/usr/share/doc/neofetch/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/neofetch
/usr/share/licenses/neofetch/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/man/man1/neofetch.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install neofetch on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).