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Create a nice Hollywood-styled UNIX terminal using the Linux command line.


Use this useful utility to create a nice hacker-styled UNIX terminal using the Linux command line. The Hollywood utility will create a set of lovely programs running in the terminal to make it look like a typical Hollywood depiction of a UNIX terminal in a hacker’s basement.

╭──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)───╮
╰───────────────────────────╾╯(/mnt/g)-(172.17.180.71)┋ sudo apt-get install hollywood
[sudo] password for john: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  appstream gamin libappstream4 libavcodec59 libavdevice59 libavfilter8 libavformat59 libavutil57 libcbor0.8 libclang-cpp15 libcodec2-1.0 libcurl3-nss libgamin0 libglib2.0-bin libhttp-cookiejar-perl libicu71 libixml10 libllvm15 libmagickcore-6.q16-6
  libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra libmagickwand-6.q16-6 libmfx1 libmongocrypt0 libmozilla-publicsuffix-perl libmujs2 libnfs13 libnode93 libobjc-12-dev libplacebo208 libpostproc56 libre2-9 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl1.2debian libstd-rust-1.67 libstemmer0d
  libswscale6 libupnp13 libutf8proc2 libvpx7 libxmlb2 llvm-15 llvm-15-dev llvm-15-linker-tools llvm-15-runtime llvm-15-tools lua-lpeg node-end-of-stream node-pump nss-plugin-pem packagekit packagekit-tools python3-pyxattr
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  apg atop bmon byobu ccze gawk gettext-base jp2a libconfuse-common libconfuse2 libio-pty-perl libipc-run-perl libncurses-dev libncurses6 libncursesw6 libsigsegv2 libtime-duration-perl libtinfo6 lsb-release moreutils ncurses-bin pastebinit
  python3-distro python3-newt python3-psutil python3-urwid speedometer tmux
Suggested packages:
  apport po-debconf screen ttf-ubuntu-font-family update-notifier-common gawk-doc ncurses-doc python-psutil-doc python-urwid-doc
Recommended packages:
  run-one
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libtinfo-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apg atop bmon byobu ccze gawk gettext-base hollywood jp2a libconfuse-common libconfuse2 libio-pty-perl libipc-run-perl libsigsegv2 libtime-duration-perl lsb-release moreutils pastebinit python3-distro python3-newt python3-psutil python3-urwid
  speedometer tmux
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libncurses-dev libncurses6 libncursesw6 libtinfo6 ncurses-bin
5 upgraded, 24 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,309 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

This will pull down various useful programs to make a nice animated terminal. Below is what this will look like—Press Control-C to quit this program when you are finished.

A typical Hollywood UNIX terminal.

The only issue is that the Python apps do not seem to work as well on Ubuntu 23.04, they keep stopping. But this works fine on Kali Linux. This is a nice thing to have running in the background.


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