Install Neofetch on Ubuntu 24.04

Neofetch is a command line tool for displaying system information such as operating system, kernel, uptime, CPU, GPU, memory, number of installed packages, etc. This tool is written using Bash command language and supports many different operating systems.

This tutorial explains how to install Neofetch on Ubuntu 24.04.

Install Neofetch

Download Neofetch executable file from GitHub repository to the /usr/local/bin directory:

sudo wget -qO /usr/local/bin/neofetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/master/neofetch

Set execute permission for a file:

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/neofetch

Now neofetch is available for all users as a system-wide command.

We can check Neofetch version:

neofetch --version

Testing Neofetch

Execute neofetch command without any arguments:

neofetch

You will get information about the system.

Uninstall Neofetch

If you wish to remove Neofetch, delete the related file:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/neofetch