[svlug] Fw: Ubuntu 7.10 Beta released

[Akkana Peck]

Kristian Erik Hermansen writes:
> I have been running Gutsy for about 4-5 months now.  One thing you
> will notice that is a new feature in Gutsy, and not mentioned in this
> thread, is that when you type an incorrect command in the shell, you
> will be told the proper package to install.  Good for n00bs *AND*
> seasoned professionals :-)

Cool feature, but I see it in Feisty, so it's not new for Gutsy.

It's neat the way it's implemented: all they have to do in bash
(it's shell-specific -- doesn't work on tcsh) is define a function
called command_not_found_handle.  So (at least in feisty) they
define that function to call /usr/bin/command-not-found, which calls
a python module they've written to look up the desired command in a
database.  command_not_found_handle() is a useful little bash trick
I hadn't seen before.

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