On 2019-11-03, Dan Ritter <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Webb wrote: >> I am a novice user, Mark H. Webb. I am programmer and learning C++. >> I was compiling a program from github. The item to compile was cilantro a >> point cloud library in C++. the lib has many dependencies and I thought i >> got them all, but I missed one, tinyply. >> When I went to complied tinyply i get the following on terminal shell: >> >> >> *Could not find the database of available applications, run >> update-command-not-found as root to fix thisSorry, command-not-found has >> crashed! Please file a bug report at:http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting >> <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting>Please include the following >> information with the report:command-not-found version: 0.3Python version: >> 3.7.3 final 0Distributor ID: DebianDescription: Debian GNU/Linux 10 >> (buster)Release: 10Codename: busterException information:local variable >> 'cnf' referenced before assignmentTraceback (most recent call last): File >> "/usr/share/command-not-found/CommandNotFound/util.py", line 23, in >> crash_guard callback() File "/usr/lib/command-not-found", line 93, in >> main if not cnf.advise(args[0], options.ignore_installed) and not >> options.no_failure_msg:UnboundLocalError: local variable 'cnf' referenced >> before assignment* >> >> I am unsure how to clear this? Is it as simple as deleting a file? or do >> i need to edit a file? > > It looks like it was trying to run command-not-found, which you > can install with
I don't understand how command-not-found could require installation if it crashed. > sudo apt install command-not-found > > (I know, that's a wacky name.) Inexplicably and obtusely confounding, would be how I'd put it. > -dsr- > > -- “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” "Speak, Memory," Vladimir Nabokov
