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I managed to get neofetch running on the library pc (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Had to mount a usb drive and run it from there, because I don't have sudo

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

1.so your library PCs run ubuntu? that's cool, my uni uses win11.

2.did you mount the USB stick and then add the directory with neofetch in it to path? Or did you do something else?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All government owned libraries in Oslo Norway use Ubuntu. I was originally trying to install hyfetch as python was installed. Pip was not, so I tried running the setup script from the source code but it failed as it relies on some pip dependencies. I did find the neofetch script in the source code, and I ran it straight from the usb drive. I did not set the usb directory with neofetch to path as I don't want to configure things that might break the pc for other people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Huh, I had no idea. It's so cool that Norwegian libraries do that

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where's the socks?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

I havet gotten around to buying programmer socks :(

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Neofetch is written in bash, you should be able to source it without installing it, doesnt even need to be executable

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Let me know what other software you'd like to see running on this thing...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If you haven't run Doom on it, are you really even trying?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I'll try that next time :)

I don't know how hard it would be to set up proton without any administrator rights, but it might be interesting to try and run crysis 3 on it too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What the hell library running linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The university library I’m most familiar with has Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu desktops available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For us they run windows 10