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Linux - Apt-Get and Super Cow Powers

1. Type apt-get help. If the egg is present one, there will be a line "This APT has Super Cow Powers."

2. Type apt-get moo and you will see a picture of a cow drawn in ascii and message "have you mooed today?"

You do not need root permissions to do this- just log in as a normal user.

Special Requirements:

Apt-get is installed on your linux (in general, debian linux)

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Pihti on 09-04-2002

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...."Have you mooed today?"...	super cow powers on Ubuntu 7.10

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Johan writes:: Actually, this is more related to aptitude. Try these commands, one line at a time: aptitude moo aptitude -v moo aptitude -vv moo aptitude -vvv moo aptitude -vvvv moo aptitude -vvvvv moo aptitude -vvvvvv moo; 93 of 97 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

KO writes:: It worked : after the first command I got a whole list of commands, and the last thing i got was : This APT has Super Cow Powers. Then I typed the other command : This APT has Super Cow Powers. knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ apt-get moo (__) (oo) /------\/ / | || * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ ...."Have you mooed today?"...; 35 of 45 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

koira writes:: "apt-build" has super-cow powers as well.; 19 of 21 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

xavierp writes:: This works in Red Hat 9 with apt4rpm installed; 21 of 28 people found this comment helpful. Did you?