Add a way of installing fastfetch on the Librem 5 phone

[CocolinoFan]

Hello,

Is it possible to install fastfetch on my Librem 5 phone running PureOS Linux? The old neofetch does not have an ASCII art for the OS.
I have tried: adding ppa:zhangsongcui3371/fastfetch and installing linuxbrew but no success.
I have no tried yet to build from source but, that would not be very useful to me anyway as updating would be a nightmare.

[CarterLi]

adding ppa:zhangsongcui3371/fastfetch

What error did it report?

[CocolinoFan]

ppa:zhangsongcui3371/fastfetch says:
"Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of lncoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fastfetch: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34) but 2.31-13+deb11u10 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems. you have held broken packages.
"
linuxbrew is not available for arm processors.

[CarterLi]

Please try this: https://github.com/CarterLi/fastfetch/actions/runs/10145571439/artifacts/1751081345

[CocolinoFan]

Thank you sir, the .deb package worked great.
Will it now get automatic updates?
It has the same artwork as neofetch :<

P.S. Excuse the spacing between letters, I did something funky with the fonts that I am trying to undo.

[CarterLi]

The advantage of fastfetch is that fastfetch is maintained. I will update the logo if you can provide one.

[CocolinoFan]

I've been doing some thinking and fastfetch's ASCII art is good. Is the PureOS logo itself that's just really basic 😅
Now I just need to figure out why, when the phone is in horizontal orientation and the screen is at 200% zoom (that's the default, 2nd image) the logo is not in line with the text; and make a pull request for it :) (might have something to do with my wired letter-spaceing issue)
Also, how should my fellow Librem 5 users install this great software? I would need to tell my distribution's maintainers to make a .deb files themselves for every update and add it to their repositories?

[CarterLi]

PureOS is based on Debian. As fastfetch is accepted into debian repo, you will likely be able to install fastfetch directly by apt, in the near future.

[CarterLi]

It's the first time I see someone running fastfetch on linux phone. Can you upload the output of fastfetch -c all --format json for debugging?

[CocolinoFan]

Yes sir :3
debugLibrem5.json