Daily Archives: March 20, 2007

Command Not Found

I love this new feature in Ubuntu Feisty..

Edit: According to these pages this is also in Ubuntu Edgy (6.10), the current stable release.

If you type a command on Linux that doesn’t exist, normally you get this:-

  alan@bishop:~$ mplayer
  -bash: mplayer: command not found

With the package command-not-found installed (which is by default installed as of Ubuntu 7.04 [Feisty] [due out in April]) you get something like this:-

  alan@tigger:~$ mplayer
  The program 'mplayer' can be found in the following packages:
   * mplayer-nogui
   * mplayer
  Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
  Make sure you have the 'multiverse' component enabled
  -bash: mplayer: command not found

How cool is that!?

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