Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwis...@avasys.jp> wrote: > Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net> writes: > > > For the record, this is a new installation of debian wheezy and > > the makeinfo utility doesn't appear to be in the distribution let alone > > on my system. > > sudo apt-get install texinfo > > I usually keep a (somewhat stale) copy of Contents-$arch.gz around and > find necessary packages with > > zegrep bin/makeinfo Contents-$arch.gz > > There is (was?) a package that would make package suggestions if a > command isn't found but I can't recall its name. > # Somewhat annoying when you make a typo but ... >
Yup - I went looking for it after your comment above, something I've been meaning to do for a while and always deferred: thanks for the push! --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ apt-cache show command-not-found Package: command-not-found Priority: standard Section: admin Installed-Size: 128 Maintainer: Michael Vogt <michael.v...@ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Zygmunt Krynicki <zkryni...@gmail.com> Architecture: all Version: 0.2.40ubuntu15 Depends: python (<< 2.7), python (>= 2.6), python-central (>= 0.6.11), python-apt, command-not-found-data, python-gdbm, lsb-release Filename: pool/main/c/command-not-found/command-not-found_0.2.40ubuntu15_all.deb Size: 12782 MD5sum: 2f4a931fc086e483e717f8270c551a0a SHA1: d6806bdbfe0de3360c83562610be06eb721b276c SHA256: 8b12da167c9a9c45470ccffa4a7e2c88bed7c59b475109838d3a12994edd6871 Description: Suggest installation of packages in interactive bash sessions This package will install a handler for command_not_found that looks up programs not currently installed but available from the repositories. Python-Version: 2.6 Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu Supported: 18m Task: standard --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Nick
