# Install nerdfetch with Homebrew, Nix

POSIX *nix fetch script using Nerdfonts. Version 8.5.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-17. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#nerdfetch.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:nerdfetch
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install nerdfetch
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#nerdfetch
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ne/nerdfetch/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:nerdfetch
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 8.5.5
- **Source summary:** POSIX *nix fetch script using Nerdfonts
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ThatOneCalculator/NerdFetch>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ThatOneCalculator/NerdFetch>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-17T01:34:07Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- nerdfetch (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 8.5.5
## Project history and usage

NerdFetch is a small POSIX shell system-fetch script in the neofetch/screenfetch tradition, but themed around Nerd Fonts and other icon fonts. Its GitHub repository was created on 2020-09-05, and the release stream visible through GitHub starts at v5.0.0 on 2022-02-24 and reaches v8.5.4 on 2026-03-15.

### Project history

The project deliberately keeps the implementation portable: the README describes it as a POSIX.1-2001 shell script for Linux, macOS, Android, BSD systems, and other Unix-like environments. Its dependencies are an icon-capable font such as Nerd Fonts, Cozette, Phosphor, or emoji mode, plus a POSIX-compliant shell. A February 2026 release note for v8.5.0 calls out POSIX.1-2001 compatibility as a feature, reinforcing that portability is the project's main engineering story.

GitHub metadata retrieved on 2026-07-01 showed about 643 stars and 35 forks, with repository topics including neofetch, screenfetch, system-information, terminal, unixporn, Termux, macOS, Linux, and POSIX.

### Adoption history

NerdFetch's adoption is mostly in terminal-aesthetic and lightweight-system-info circles rather than infrastructure tooling. The README lists installation routes through Arch AUR, Homebrew, Nix, Gentoo GURU or LiGurOS, manual curl install, Termux, and one-shot shell execution. The Homebrew formula API reported stable version 8.5.4 and 193 install-on-request events in the prior 30 days when checked on 2026-07-01.

### How it is used

Users run `nerdfetch` to print OS, shell, package-manager, and environment facts with compact icon-heavy output for screenshots, shell startup demos, and quick machine identity checks. It is a package-nerd fit because it tests icon font setup, shell portability, and package-manager detection across many Unix-like systems.

### Why package nerds care

NerdFetch is not a foundational package, but it is representative of the terminal rice ecosystem: tiny, portable, icon-forward, and distributed through several community package managers. It is useful enrichment for package catalogs because its value comes from cross-OS packaging and terminal culture more than from a large dependency graph.

### Timeline

- 2020-09-05: GitHub repository created.
- 2022-02-24: Oldest GitHub release returned by the API, v5.0.0.
- 2026-02-01: v8.5.0 release note highlights POSIX.1-2001 compatibility.
- 2026-03-15: v8.5.4 released.

### Related projects

- Nerd Fonts
- neofetch
- screenfetch
- Cozette
- Phosphor
- Termux

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/ThatOneCalculator/NerdFetch>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/ThatOneCalculator/NerdFetch/releases?per_page=100>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/nerdfetch.json>
- <https://github.com/ThatOneCalculator/NerdFetch>
- <https://github.com/ThatOneCalculator/NerdFetch/releases>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - nerdfetch: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ne/nerdfetch/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/nerdfetch.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/nerdfetch.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph