In 1997, Peter A. Peterson II held a contest for his now-defunct Nerth Pork magazine. The goal: come up with the best piece of art entitled "robotfindskitten". Leonard Richardson submitted the winning (read: only) entry, a Zen Simulation.
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robotfindskitten is available from most Unix distributions.
sudo apt install robotfindskitten# Debian, Ubuntu, etcsudo dnf install robotfindskitten# Fedora, etcsudo pkg install robotfindskitten# FreeBSDsudo port install robotfindskitten# macOS MacPortsbrew install robotfindskitten# macOS Homebrewguix install robotfindskitten# GNU Guix
As of this writing, Finnix is the only distribution to carry robotfindskitten pre-installed.
If your distribution does not have robotfindskitten, contact them and politely ask them to distribute it. It's in their best interest.
To build robotfindskitten from source, you will need GNU and TeX tools. On Debian-based systems, the following build dependencies will be sufficient:
sudo apt install build-essential gnulib libncurses-dev texinfo texlive-latex-recommended
Generate/update autoconf/automake scripts. This is required when building from git source, but is recommended for releases too.
autoreconf -ifv
Configure, make, install.
./configure
make
sudo make install