Install Archey Tool in Ubuntu to Display System information in Terminal

Do you like to display system information in your terminal by using only one simple tool? Have you ever used Archey?

Archey is a python script that can be used to display system info for Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Crunchbang and Fedora. If you know python and love to understand how does this tool work, you can read the source code. As far as I can understand from the Archey's code I can tell that it gives the user information about:

1. hostname
2. os
3. kernel
4. uptime
5. window manager
6. desktop environment
7. shell
8. terminal
9. packages
10. cpu
11. ram
12. disk

Now it is time to download and install Archey 0.2.8.deb. I know you guys like nice tools, so let's go and try it. Follow each one of the following instructions to install Archey in your Ubuntu/Debian machine.

1. Open a new terminal (CTRL+ALT+T ) and download archey-0.2.8.deb — Package for Debian/Ubuntu with the following command.

$ sudo wget https://github.com/downloads/djmelik/archey/archey-0.2.8.deb

2. Install dependencies with the following command.

$ sudo apt-get install scrot lsb-release

3. Install Archey with the dpkg command

$ sudo dpkg -i archey-0.2.8.deb

After the installation is finished run Archey with the following command.

archey