Question:
I have noticed that while on Ubuntu, if I type the following:
mc
and it isnt installed, I get the message below:
The program 'mc' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install mc
However in Debian, that is not available. It just gives a “-bash: /usr/bin/mc: No such file or directory” message. How can I implement the same functionality in bash command line on Debian? Yes, I know that if it is package suggestion that I want, I can simply do a regex search using *apt-cache search*. However I was hoping for the simpler suggestion immediately on typing the name of the program.
As per discussions, the functionality is provided by the package command-not-found. However even after installing it, and also installing bash-completion package, this isnt available on the Debian bash shell.
Answer:
The suggestions are definitely provided by the package command-not-found.
However after installing the package, one needs to run the following command once to initialize the database:
update-command-not-found
After doing this, bash starts providing suggestions to install the correct package.
$htop Could not find the database of available applications, run update-command-not-found as root to fix this htop: command not found $update-command-not-found Downloading complete file http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Contents-i386.gz I: Writing data for ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_Contents-i386.gz ... . done $htop The program 'htop' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: apt-get install htop htop: command not found