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cowsay mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für cowsay in AI-Agent-Workflows.

InstallationsbefehlSicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install cowsay

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%
sudo port install cowsay

MacPorts ports tree · textproc/cowsay/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%
sudo apk add cowsay

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · cowsay · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%
sudo apt install cowsay

Debian stable package indexes · cowsay · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%
sudo dnf install cowsay

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · cowsay · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#cowsay

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/co/cowsay/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%
sudo pacman -S cowsay

Arch Linux sync databases · cowsay · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%
sudo zypper install cowsay

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · cowsay · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Scoopverifiziert · 92%
scoop install main/cowsay

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/cowsay.json · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Apjanke's fork of the classic cowsay project

Befehle und Aliase

  • cowsay
  • cowthink

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Cowsay is a Perl terminal novelty program that prints a message in a speech balloon next to an ASCII cow. Its official maintained fork describes it as a small, deliberately silly Unix-style program in the spirit of figlet.

Projektgeschichte

The current cowsay-org project preserves Tony Monroe's original Cowsay. The project README says Monroe first released Cowsay in 1999, after using it privately for some time. Early versions evolved from one cow and a fixed message template into arbitrary messages, multiple cowfiles, figlet support, and a Perl 5 rewrite.

In 2016, Monroe published a final 3.04 version on GitHub and indicated that he was no longer interested in maintaining it. Andrew Janke later created the cowsay-org fork to provide maintenance, hosting, deployment support, random cow selection, and pluggable third-party cow collections.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Cowsay became a familiar package-manager fixture because it is tiny, scriptable, harmless, and visually distinctive. The Homebrew formula data in this batch lists it across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, MacPorts, Nix, Scoop, and openSUSE-style packaging, reflecting its broad life as a demonstration, shell-customization, and terminal-joke package.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical use is as a command-line filter or generator: users run cowsay or cowthink with a message, often in login banners, demos, shell pipelines, CI jokes, or examples that need recognizable terminal output without real domain complexity.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, Cowsay is a classic low-risk novelty package: it exercises Perl script installation, data-file handling for cowfiles, manpage-style documentation, and cross-platform packaging while remaining easy to test by invoking a single executable.

Zeitleiste

  • 1999: Tony Monroe first released Cowsay publicly.
  • 2016: Monroe published a final 3.04 version on GitHub for others to use.
  • 2016 onward: Andrew Janke's cowsay-org fork provided ongoing maintenance and modern hosting.

Related projects

  • The README explicitly compares Cowsay's spirit to figlet, and points to third-party cowfile collections plus cowsay-org's cows-offensive collection for historical cowfiles kept outside the main distribution.

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

  • In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
  • Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 1 Plattformziele verfügbar.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

BefehlArtSichtbarkeitHinweis
cowsaycliglobales Executable
cowthinkcliglobales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25
Manager-Version3.8.4
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamaktuell
neueste erkannte Versionv3.8.4

https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay

  • InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüsselbrew:cowsay
Version3.8.4
PaketmanagerHomebrew
Paketmanager-Seitehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cowsay
Homepagehttps://cowsay.diamonds
Repositoryhttps://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay
Upstream-Dokumentationhttps://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay#readme
LizenzGPL-3.0-only
Quellarchivhttps://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/archive/refs/tags/v3.8.4.tar.gz
Bottleverfügbar (auf all)
Homebrew post-installnicht definiert
Dienstkeiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namecowsay
Aliases
  • cowthink
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

cowsay

nix profile install nixpkgs#cowsay
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cowsay
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/cowsay/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

cowsay-off 3.03+dfsg2-8

configurable talking cow (offensive cows)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120527202447/http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml

sudo apt install cowsay-off
  • Section: universe/games
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: cowsay
  • 1 Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cowsay
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cowsay-off from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

cowsay 3.04-r2

Configurable talking cow (and a few other creatures)

https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay

sudo apk add cowsay
  • License: Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cowsay
  • 1 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cowsay
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cowsay from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

cowsay-doc 3.04-r2

Configurable talking cow (and a few other creatures) (documentation)

https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay

sudo apk add cowsay-doc
  • License: Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cowsay
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cowsay
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cowsay-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

cowsay 3.8.4-5.fc44

Configurable speaking/thinking cow

https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay

sudo dnf install cowsay
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: cowsay
  • 5 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cowsay
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: cowsay from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

cowsay 3.8.4-1

Configurable talking cow (and a bit more)

https://cowsay.diamonds

sudo pacman -S cowsay
  • License: GPL-3.0-only
  • Architecture: any
  • 1 Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cowsay
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: cowsay from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

cowsay 3.8.4-1.3

Configurable talking cow (and some other creatures)

https://cowsay.diamonds/

sudo zypper install cowsay
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Category: Amusements/Toys/Other
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: cowsay
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cowsay
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cowsay from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

cowsay

sudo port install cowsay
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cowsay
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: textproc/cowsay/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop95%

main/cowsay

scoop install main/cowsay
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Cowsay
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/cowsay.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Verwandte Tools

  • cowsaySame normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: art, ascii, cli, cowsay, cowthink.

Gleicher Workflow

  • ponysayShares av.db curated category or tags: ascii-art, cli, terminal, terminal-toy, toys.
  • asciiquariumShares av.db curated category or tags: ascii-art, cli, perl, terminal, toys.
  • fakesteakShares av.db curated category or tags: ascii-art, cli, terminal, toys.
  • tractorgenShares av.db curated category or tags: ascii-art, cli, terminal, toys.
  • cbonsaiShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, terminal, toys.
  • cmatrixShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, terminal, toys.
  • cowsaySame normalized package name in another local ecosystem.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Verwendete Quellen

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment