some help with "command not found" errors

[sprinkmeier]

So you're running a script of some kind which fails on a missing command:

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pi@gatepie ~ $ ./SomeScript.sh 
./SomeScript.sh: line 2: uuencode: command not found

yup... it's missing alright.

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pi@gatepie ~ $ uuencode
uuencode: command not found

There's a helper to identify mising commands:

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pi@gatepie ~ $ sudo apt-get install command-not-found 
Reading package lists... Done

[...]

You need to run 'update-command-not-found' as root to update the cache.

update it's database:

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pi@gatepie ~ $ sudo update-command-not-found 
Downloading complete file http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/dists/wheezy/main/Contents-armhf.gz

OK, you might need to log out and back in again for this to work

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pi@gatepie ~ $ uuencode
The program 'uuencode' is currently not installed.  To run 'uuencode' please ask your administrator to install the package 'sharutils'

if you're root it will even tell you how to do that:

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root@gatepie ~ # uuencode
The program 'uuencode' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
apt-get install sharutils
uuencode: command not found

there's even a sort of spell-checker in case you mostly remember the name of a command:

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pi@gatepie ~ $ dhcp
No command 'dhcp' found, did you mean:
 Command 'dicp' from package 'dish' (main)
 Command 'hcp' from package 'lam4-dev' (main)
 Command 'chcp' from package 'nilfs-tools' (main)
 Command 'dhcpd' from package 'isc-dhcp-server' (main)
 Command 'dccp' from package 'dcap' (main)
dhcp: command not found
pi@gatepie ~ $

[SimonSmall]

Ooohh - good call. I'll try this later

[recantha2]

Sweet Will feature on my blog