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If you spend all day embroiled in data science, getting up to speed on new-fangled programming languages, or sit in countless boring meetings wishing you were elsewhere, you’ll definitely want some light relief at the end of the day. And what better way by making your desktop environment a bit more fun.
lifecycler is an aquarium that runs direct in your terminal. It’s free and open source goodness written in Rust.
Installation
We used cargo to build the software. Our first attempt at installation failed.
On our test system, this issue was fixed by removing rustup and replacing it with rust:
$ sudo pacman -Syu rust
:: rust-1:1.84.1-1 and rustup-1.27.1-1 are in conflict (cargo). Remove rustup? [y/N] y
Now, reissuing the command:
$ cargo install lifecycler --locked
As you can see, the software builds with no issues.
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Page 2 – In Operation and Summary