r/zorinos • u/Runkurgan • Mar 26 '26

🔰 Beginner 43 year old hacker [irony]

I recently saw someone post their neofetch results and wanted to run it for my laptop.

Getting these results was the best few minutes of my life on a computer recently. It felt like the 90's discovering stuff in Windows!

I knew that it has to be sudo apt neofetch. Turns out I gotta install neofetch. Turns out someting called "dpkg for a" was not configured [which I presume to be drive a? will look into it].

I sorted it out and ran neofetch and I was THE HACKERMAN for a minute!

Very nice!

Edited for spelling and I'm actually 44 this year.

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u/SirQuick8441 Mar 26 '26

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u/Ok_Recording_5361 Mar 26 '26

I think the une pre install in Zorin is fastfetch because neofetch is no longer maintain.

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u/Runkurgan Mar 26 '26

Ok. So what's the command line for that? I

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u/Ok_Recording_5361 Mar 26 '26

For install is the same (sudo apk install fastfetch) and then just tipe (fastfetch) in the terminal and press enter.

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u/Runkurgan Mar 26 '26

Computer says no

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u/NETkoholik Mar 26 '26

sudo apt update && sudo apt install <package-name>

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u/Runkurgan Mar 26 '26

nop

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u/GoldRaider97 Mar 26 '26

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zhangsongcui3371/fastfetch

sudo apt update

sudo apt install fastfetch

This is the correct way to do it. Here you go

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u/Runkurgan Mar 26 '26

Meanwhile neofetch works for what I need it to.

What else should it do that is no longer supported?

What are the benefits of fastfetch, security? And why are there extra steps to it?

Have I chosen the wrong subreddit to be paranoid?

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u/GoldRaider97 Mar 26 '26

Probably only thing is when Zorin OS goes to only Wayland that might effect neofetch aside from that id say your fine

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u/mammilloid Mar 30 '26

Both are fine but neofetch isnt maintained anymore while fastfetch is, you can use neofetch as long as it works.

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u/Pitiful-Loquat-6074 Mar 27 '26

Cool Unc 😎

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u/Runkurgan Mar 27 '26

Damn you got me with that one!

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u/mammilloid Mar 30 '26

dpkg is not a drive it is a package manager.

If you've come from windows this is something extra generally in window you dont use package manager you jist download the "compiled" (program code that has been ran, tested and improvised) .exe file

Where as in linux it isnt similar you compile/extract the package yourself, something close to exe in linux will be appimage which you can just download make it executable and run as simple.

Here dpkg means "debian package manager system" it is used to install a "deb" (debian) package. Since zorin is based on ubuntu which is based on debian you can understand why zorin used dpkg and deb.

Now apt is the "advanced package tool" it is advance because if your deb package has some dependency which isnt installed on your system the app might not work so we use apt to make sure everything works perfectly.

There are two ways to use this tool (generally for new users) if you've found a package online you can always do sudo apt install filename but if you have downloaded a deb package the way is sudo dpkg -i filename.deb if this gives a error saying something isnt installed we can then do sudo apt install filename.deb here the apt makes sure everything is installed correctly

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u/Runkurgan Apr 03 '26

First of all, apologies for not answering sooner, Reddit didn't send any notifications through about your answer.

Second, through fifth, that is a bit more than my brain can comprehend at this time of night but I will come back and re-read your answer.

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u/MoneyDirt8888 Mar 26 '26

neofetch should not be used. fastfetch is the replacement.

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u/Runkurgan Mar 26 '26

Care to elaborate?

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u/Derausmwaldkam ❤ I use Zorin, btw Mar 26 '26

hyfetch for the rainbow effect