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brew

Installer cowsay avec Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de cowsay pour les workflows d'agents IA.

Commande d'installationNotes de sécurité

installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install cowsay

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install cowsay

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

Linux

Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add cowsay

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

Debian aptvérifié · 92%
sudo apt install cowsay

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

Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%
sudo dnf install cowsay

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

Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#cowsay

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

Arch Linux pacmanvérifié · 92%
sudo pacman -S cowsay

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

openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install cowsay

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

Windows

Scoopvérifié · 92%
scoop install main/cowsay

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

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Apjanke's fork of the classic cowsay project

Commandes et alias

  • cowsay
  • cowthink

historique

Historique du projet et usages

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.

Historique du projet

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.

Historique d'adoption

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.

Modes d'utilisation

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.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

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.

Chronologie

  • 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.

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : vert

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Classificateur de risque

risque vert · confiance faible · appliance

Pourquoi

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signaux

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Comportement d'installation

  • Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
  • Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 1 plateformes.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

exécutables

Exécutables installés

CommandeTypeExpositionNote
cowsaycliexécutable global
cowthinkcliexécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-25
version du gestionnaire3.8.4
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontà jour
dernière version détectéev3.8.4

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

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquetbrew:cowsay
Version3.8.4
Gestionnaire de paquetsHomebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquetshttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cowsay
Page d'accueilhttps://cowsay.diamonds
Dépôthttps://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay
Docs amonthttps://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay#readme
LicenceGPL-3.0-only
Archive sourcehttps://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/archive/refs/tags/v3.8.4.tar.gz
Bouteilledisponible (sur all)
post-install Homebrewnon défini
Serviceaucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

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

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

cowsay

nix profile install nixpkgs#cowsay
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : 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
  • Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : 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
  • Correspondance par : 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
  • Correspondance par : 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

graphe de paquets

Les liens viennent du graphe local de relations entre paquets, des suppléments, des dépendances, des correspondances d'écosystèmes et de l'appartenance aux hubs.

Outils liés

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

Même 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.

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Sources utilisées

  • 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