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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: apt-get
huh?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:19 AM, James Mcphee <> wrote:

> If you don't like python, there's "apt-file", which is in perl
>
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
>> your trying to get me to see the python script? is this the right way to
>> do it? I did it with 'man' before but now that I think of it running 'man
>> /usr/lib/command-not-found' is essentially running 'less
>> /usr/lib/command-not-found' except 'man/usr/lib/command-not-found' has the
>> hilighted line ' Manual page command-not-found line 1 (press h for help or
>> q to quit)'
>>
>> $ more /usr/lib/command-not-found
>> #!/usr/bin/python3
>> # (c) Zygmunt Krynicki 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
>> # Licensed under GPL, see COPYING for the whole text
>>
>> from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
>>
>>
>> __version__ = "0.3"
>> BUG_REPORT_URL = "https://bugs.launchpad.net/command-not-found/+filebug"
>>
>> try:
>>     import sys
>>     if sys.path and sys.path[0] == '/usr/lib':
>>         # Avoid ImportError noise due to odd installation location.
>>         sys.path.pop(0)
>>     if sys.version < '3':
>>         # We might end up being executed with Python 2 due to an old
>>         # /etc/bash.bashrc.
>>         import os
>>         if "COMMAND_NOT_FOUND_FORCE_PYTHON2" not in os.environ:
>>             os.execvp("python3", [sys.argv[0]] + sys.argv)

>>
>>     import gettext
>>     import locale
>>     from optparse import OptionParser

>>
>>     from CommandNotFound.util import crash_guard
>>     from CommandNotFound import CommandNotFound
>> except KeyboardInterrupt:
>>     import sys
>>     sys.exit(127)

>>
>>
>> def enable_i18n():
>>     cnf = gettext.translation("command-not-found", fallback=True)
>>     kwargs = {}
>>     if sys.version < '3':
>>         kwargs["unicode"] = True
>>     cnf.install(**kwargs)
>>     try:
>>         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
>>     except locale.Error:
>>         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'C')

>>
>>
>> def fix_sys_argv(encoding=None):
>>     """
>>     Fix sys.argv to have only unicode strings, not binary strings.
>>     This is required by various places where such argument might be
>>     automatically coerced to unicode string for formatting
>>     """
>>     if encoding is None:
>>         encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
>>     sys.argv = [arg.decode(encoding) for arg in sys.argv]

>>
>>
>> class LocaleOptionParser(OptionParser):
>>     """
>>     OptionParser is broken as its implementation of _get_encoding() uses
>>     sys.getdefaultencoding() which is ascii, what it should be using is
>>     locale.getpreferredencoding() which returns value based on LC_CTYPE
>> (most
>>     likely) and allows for UTF-8 encoding to be used.
>>     """
>>     def _get_encoding(self, file):
>>         encoding = getattr(file, "encoding", None)
>>         if not encoding:
>>             encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
>>         return encoding

>>
>>
>> def main():
>>     enable_i18n()
>>     if sys.version < '3':
>>         fix_sys_argv()
>>     parser = LocaleOptionParser(
>>         version=__version__,
>>         usage=_("%prog [options] <command-name>"))
>>     parser.add_option('-d', '--data-dir', action='store',
>>                       default="/usr/share/command-not-found",
>>                       help=_("use this path to locate data fields"))
>>     parser.add_option('--ignore-installed', '--ignore-installed',
>>                       action='store_true',  default=False,
>>                       help=_("ignore local binaries and display the
>> available packages"))
>>     parser.add_option('--no-failure-msg',
>>                       action='store_true', default=False,
>>                       help=_("don't print '<command-name>: command not
>> found'"))
>>     (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
>>     if len(args) == 1:
>>         cnf = CommandNotFound(options.data_dir)
>>         if not cnf.advise(args[0], options.ignore_installed) and not
>> options.no_failure_msg:
>>             print(_("%s: command not found") % args[0], file=sys.stderr)

>>
>> if __name__ == "__main__":
>>     crash_guard(main, BUG_REPORT_URL, __version__)

>>
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 7:07 PM, James Mcphee <> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, it's not in bin. if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found -o -x
>>> /usr/share/command-not-found/command-not-found ]; then
>>>
>>> is the line in .bash.bashrc.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Michael Havens <>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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 <> 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 <>
>>>>> 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 <>
>>>>>> 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 <>
>>>>>>> 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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