On 7/6/25 06:47, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 06:03:59AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
This has been mentioned before - you have not explained why you have not
tried it.
Someone even did the google search for you, and, posted the link.
I do not know how far you expect people to go, to do for you what you need
to do.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastfetch
https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
I personally would not be telling novices to install packages from
testing, sid or from source just to work out what desktop environment
they are in. At the best of times it seems like a trip into the weeds.
Although as this thread is going much like every other Gene thread I
have ever seen, we probably will never get to even that first step
before it cycles around again, no matter what is attempted.
I wish Gene had an experienced Linux user geographically near to him.
Thanks,
Andy
With all of the posts from Gene, I had taken Gene to be not a novice.
Fastfetch is packaged as a .deb package; it simply needs to be
downloaded, and then installed using a package manager such as apt.
The instructions are simple, and are at the github link that I posted.
"
Debian: apt install fastfetch (for Debian 13 or newer)
Debian / Ubuntu: Download fastfetch-linux-<proper architecture>.deb from
Github release page and double-click it (for Ubuntu 20.04 or newer and
Debian 11 or newer).
"
For a stepwise process. is one of the results from doing a google search
on "how to install fastfetch on debian";
https://eldernode.com/tutorials/install-fastfetch-on-debian-12/
So much information is easily available, if a person is willing to seek it.
Apart from the politics and dirty habits of google, using the google
search engine should be done more often, rather than drawing out issues
for as long as possible.
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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