[O] [OT] Re: why was makefile changed to produce this?

[Nick Dokos]

Olaf Meeuwissen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Jude DaShiell <address@hidden> 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!

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$ apt-cache show command-not-found
Package: command-not-found
Priority: standard
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 128
Maintainer: Michael Vogt <address@hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Zygmunt Krynicki <address@hidden>
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
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Nick