trevorj/nyancat repository overview

⁠Nyancat CLI

Nyancat rendered in your terminal.

⁠Distributions

Nyancat is available in the following distributions:

• Arch⁠
• Debian⁠
• Gentoo⁠
• Mandriva⁠
• Ubuntu⁠

And also on some BSD systems:

• FreeBSD⁠
• OpenBSD⁠
• NetBSD⁠

⁠Setup

First build the C application:

make && cd src

You can run the C application standalone.

./nyancat

To use the telnet server, you need to add a configuration that runs:

nyancat -t

We recommend openbsd-inetd, but both xinetd and systemd work as well. You should be able to use any other compatible inetd flavor too.

⁠Distribution Specific Information

⁠Debian/Ubuntu

Debian and Ubuntu provide the nyancat binary through the nyancat package. A nyancat-server package is provided to automatically setup and enable a nyancat telnet server upon installation. I am not the maintainer of these packages; please direct any questions or bugs to the relevant distribution's bug tracking system.

⁠Licenses, References, etc.

The original source of the Nyancat animation is prguitarman⁠.

The code provided here is provided under the terms of the NCSA license⁠.