How To Install screenfetch on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install screenfetch in Fedora 36. screenfetch is A “Bash Screenshot Information Tool”

Introduction

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

What is screenfetch

This handy Bash script can be used to generate one of those nifty terminal theme information + ASCII distribution logos you see in everyone’s screen-shots nowadays. It will auto-detect your distribution and display an ASCII version of that distribution’s logo and some valuable information to the right. There are options to specify no ASCII art, colors, taking a screen-shot upon displaying info, and even customizing the screen-shot command! This script is very easy to add to and can easily be extended.

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

Install screenfetch 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 screenfetch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install screenfetch

Install screenfetch 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 screenfetch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install screenfetch

How To Uninstall screenfetch on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove screenfetch

screenfetch Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/screenfetch
/usr/share/doc/screenfetch
/usr/share/doc/screenfetch/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/screenfetch/README.mkdn
/usr/share/doc/screenfetch/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/screenfetch
/usr/share/licenses/screenfetch/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/screenfetch.1.gz

References

Summary

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