Installation

Contents

• Package manager
  • Scoop
  • PSGallery
• Manual

Package manager

Scoop

The official way to install Winfetch is with Scoop:

• Ensure that the extras bucket is installed:

  $ scoop bucket add extras
  $ scoop bucket list
  main
  java
  ...
  extras
  

• Install the winfetch package:

  $ scoop install winfetch
  Installing 'winfetch' (1.0.0) [64bit]
  Loading v1.0.0 from cache
  Checking hash of v1.0.0 ... ok.
  Extracting dl.7z ... done.
  Linking ~\scoop\apps\winfetch\current => ~\scoop\apps\winfetch\1.0.0
  Creating shim for 'winfetch'.
  'winfetch' (1.0.0) was installed successfully!
  

PSGallery

This is an unofficial (and possibly temporary) way to install Winfetch, using PowerShell Gallery:

Install-Script -Name pwshfetch-test-1
Set-Alias winfetch pwshfetch-test-1    # Put this in $PROFILE

It is recommended to add the second line to the respective $PROFILE, to make calling Winfetch easier.

Manual

For people who are allergic to package managers.

NOTE: By not installing Winfetch via a package manager, you will not be able to automatically update Winfetch. Each time a new version is released, you will have to go through these steps again.

Using git

First, clone this repository:

$ git clone git@github.com:lptstr/winfetch.git

Reset the repository to the latest release:

$ cd winfetch
$ git reset --hard v0.0.0

Then, move the winfetch.ps1 file to somewhere on your PATH:

$ mv .\winfetch.ps1 ~\.local\bin\

Using powershell

To download the script directly use:

# download development version
Invoke-WebRequest "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lptstr/winfetch/master/winfetch.ps1" -OutFile ~\.local\bin\winfetch.ps1 -UseBasicParsing

# download a specific version
Invoke-WebRequest "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lptstr/winfetch/v2.0.0/winfetch.ps1" -OutFile ~\.local\bin\winfetch.ps1 -UseBasicParsing

To execute winfetch directly without saving the file to disk use:

Invoke-WebRequest "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lptstr/winfetch/master/winfetch.ps1" -UseBasicParsing | Invoke-Expression

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Legacy systems

Run this command in cmd.exe to download the batch file (for systems that can't run PowerShell 5+):

bitsadmin /transfer winfetchjob /download /priority foreground "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lptstr/winfetch/legacy/winfetch.bat" "C:\your\path\here\winfetch.bat"

Optionally, to enable colors in output, download the colous binary too:

bitsadmin /transfer colousjob /download /priority foreground "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lptstr/winfetch/legacy/colous.exe" "C:\your\path\here\colous.exe"