well... in the interim I got my memory chips so I shut down my computer to put them in and found I got the wrong ones! they're two small. so I restart the computer, get your message, and:

bmike1@C521 ~ $ which command-not-found

bmike1@C521 ~ $  command-not-found

command-not-found: command not found

bmike1@C521 ~ $ 

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:47 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:

Honestly, no :)  Check your /etc/bash.bashrc.  The default has a little conditional if the command you typed isn't found it runs that little python script to look for possible packages that might contain what you were trying to run.  It's annoying an I tend to disable it so when I typo a command it doesn't slow me down doing the search.  Find it with "which command-not-found" and you can read the python code, which doesn't really say much, but is interesting none-the-less.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

no it isn't  but as I was looking into this I tried running the man page and get:

'No manual entry for command-not-found' 

but when I try to apt-get it:

'command-not-found is already the newest version.' 

Then I tried running it with the help option:

'command-not-found: command not found'

 Are you just messing with me, James?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:50 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:

there's a command called "command-not-found", is that what you were thinking of to find the file in question?

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

Long ago I needed a file that was included in an apt package. If I remember right there is a way to find out what package that file is a part of and to extract it. Am I right? If so, how is it done?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

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