Nyancat CLI

Nyancat rendered in your terminal.

Distributions

Nyancat is available in the following distributions:

• Arch
• Debian
• Fedora
• 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.