Neofetch on XCP-NG
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Hello, everyone.
I am curious what is Vates' standing on neofetch installation/use on XCP-NG. Discouraged? Neutral?
If neutral how do I install it? These approaches did not work
yum install neofetch --enablerepo=base,updates
yum install neofetch --enablerepo=konimex/neofetchThank you
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@Ascar said in Neofetch on XCP-NG:
Hello, everyone.
I am curious what is Vates' standing on neofetch installation/use on XCP-NG. Discouraged? Neutral?
If neutral how do I install it? These approaches did not work
yum install neofetch --enablerepo=base,updates
yum install neofetch --enablerepo=konimex/neofetchThank you
XCP-ng is a type one hypervisor. No Type 1 hypervisor in the world should be installed as a secondary package, from a practical Technical Engineering standpoint or modified outside of the default installation from a third party.
You're introducing a lot of risk because you have a non-standard installation of the hypervisor.
This is adding risk and complexity for no reasonable explanation as far as I can tell.
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@DustinB Not sure that I understand your answer as it appears to me that @Ascar wants to deploy an additional package (neofetch) on the XCP-ng installation.
@Ascar said in Neofetch on XCP-NG:
These approaches did not work
Can you provide more details? What error messages did you receive?
FWIW, I know nothing about this package other than what I just looked up on the net. It seems that this tool is no longer being developed, so it may not be wise to deploy in this situation. What happens if / when a vulnerability is found?
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Isn't neofetch just a bash script. Just copy it and run...
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@Forza Not a bash script, a package that requires installation. XCP-NG has all repos wisely disabled. That's why installing it on this specific type of host is not a trivial task.
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@Danp Well, it is just a user-definable system summary that may be run on demand or when the terminal session starts. CPU/Memory utilization etc.
Oliver was involved in a discussion related to XCP-NG logo coloring for Neofetch, however this was long time ago. At that time he did not say anything like 'Don't do it, it is bad for your host'.
https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/491
https://doc.netwaze.fr/books/xcp-ng/page/neofetch-xcp-ngI can live without it, but it does not harm to have Neofetch on the host for a quick glimpse at the resources.
open ASCII-based logo for xcp-ng #491
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@Ascar said in Neofetch on XCP-NG:
@Forza Not a bash script, a package that requires installation. XCP-NG has all repos wisely disabled. That's why installing it on this specific type of host is not a trivial task.
Sure it is packaged for many distros, but it is just a bash script.
Neofetch is a command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch
Neofetch only requires BASH, the rest of the dependencies are entirely optional
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Dependencies
But to state what others already said, it is not recommended to install stuff in dom0.
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