Cowspeak Root 🐮

https://souravgoswami.github.io/cowspeak/

Display a gradient colourful animal with a random quote or your own text in your terminal.

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It depends on ruby. Cowspeak recommends you to use Ruby 2.4.0+.

Note that this is only for GNU/Linux systems. Here's another cowspeak repository that can be run locally without any root permission.

Cowspeak Debian installer can also be found here.

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Running Cowspeak on Debian/Linux Mint/Ubuntu/Kali Linux/Raspbian/Other Debian Based Systems 🐄

• Download the latest deb file .

• Install the deb file: dpkg -i cowspeak-v<version>.deb Or You can use gdebi-gtk.

Running Cowspeak on Arch Linux/Manjaro/Archlabs and other Arch based distributions

• git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/cowspeak.git
• cd cowspeak
• makepkg -Aris

Running Cowspeak on Other Linux Distributions ⚙️

If you want to run cowspeak in any GNU/Linux distributions, then please follow the steps:

• Make sure you have Ruby 💎

• Run the as root.

  Example: sudo ruby Root_Installer.rb

  Press Enter to Confirm each step.

• When the above step succeeds, run: sudo cowspeak -dl

🐮 Cowspeak Accept Arguments. All the Available Arguments are 👇

1         --art or -a                   Display a tutorial on adding your own art.
2         --blink or -b                 Blink the texts.
3         --borderh=<ch>/-brh=<ch>      Horizontal border character.
4         --borderv=<ch>/-brv=<ch>      Vertical border character.
5         --bubble=<text>/-bbl=<text>   Specify the character of speech balloons.
6         --documentation/-d            Display the documentation.
7         --download/-dl                Download missing files from Github.
8         --file=<path>/-f=<path>       Specify the path of your own ASCII art.
9         --fill=<char>/-fc=<char>      Fill the quote area with a character.
10        --force-update/-fu            Forcefully update (also see --update)
11        --help/-h                     Display help.
12        --invert/-inv                 Invert the output (right <- left in English)!
13        --manual/-m                   Display a manual. Same as documentation.
14        --net=<url>/-n=<url>          Read data from a website (in curl format).
15        --no-art/-na                  Don't display the animal.
16        --no-colour/-nc               Don't colourize the output.
17        --no-text/-nt                 Don't show any text, show the animal.
18        --read=<file>/-r=<file>       Read a file.
19        --reverse/-rev                Cowspeak reads upside down!
20        --rotate-colour/-rc           Rotate the output colours in each line.
21        --show-arts/-sa               Show arts in the default directory.
22        --text=<text>/-t=<text>       Display a custom text.
23        --version/-v                  Display the current /usr/bin/cowspeak version.
24        --update/-u                   Update cowspeak if possible.
25        --welcome/-w                  Show some system details to the user.

Note on Arguments 📝

You have to pass each argument separately. For example, cowspeak -rc rotates the colour of the output, and -w shows a welcome screen with some system status and information. So if you want to use both, you have to use cowspeak -rc -w (instead of cowspeak -rcw).

If you pass an invalid argument, cowspeak will not inform you. It will simply ignore the invalid argument so you can cheer!

Screenshots 📸

Developer Notes 👨🏻‍💻👩🏻‍💻

When modifying cowspeak, you have to keep 2 versions:

1. Keep the first file in latest-src/usr/bin/cowspeak. Change ROOT=true, and ROOT_DISABLE_DOWNLOAD=true.
2. Keep the second file in "Other Distributions". Change ROOT=true, and ROOT_DISABLE_DOWNLOAD=false.

You have to update the version.

Now, you have to edit "./control", and add the current version. Run ruby dpkg-build.rb. Fakeroot isn't utilized yet, so you have to run it as root. It will generate a .deb file in the Debian/ directory. If you run it again, a version will be added. Like "cowspeak-v3.22.deb", "cowspeak-v3.22-1.deb", "cowspeak-v3.22-2.deb". So avoid building same package.

Then you have to run bash generate_tarball.sh. It will generate a tarball under tarballs/ directory.

Push that changes to github. Then edit the Arch Linux/PKGBUILD. Add the version there. And run makepkg -g to generate the md5 checksum, put that in the PKGBUILD again. Then run makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO to create/update the .SRCINFO file.

That's it!

Bug Report 🐞

Cowspeak considers bugs and security issues very seriously 🐛. If you got any bug in cowspeak, any security issue, or an idea, please let me know via GitHub or email me souravgoswami@protonmail.com