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So, I have installed fortune on my Rackspace server but if I run it without any arguments it says



No fortunes found


I installed the package as root so there shouldn't be a permissions issue. The directory /usr/share/games/fortunes doesn't even exist which is where it's supposed to store the fortunes. I thought it might be a Rackspace package issue so I install the latest stable deb package with dpkg from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/fortune-mod_1.99.1-7_amd64.deb. I've tried uninstalling fortune and fortune-mod and re-installing them with aptitude to no avail. What could the issue be?










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  • How did you install it?

    – Parto
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:13











  • Just a basic sudo apt-get install fortune. I also tried sudo apt-get autoremove fortune fortune-mod and then re-installed with sudo aptitude install fortune.

    – Alex W
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:22


















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So, I have installed fortune on my Rackspace server but if I run it without any arguments it says



No fortunes found


I installed the package as root so there shouldn't be a permissions issue. The directory /usr/share/games/fortunes doesn't even exist which is where it's supposed to store the fortunes. I thought it might be a Rackspace package issue so I install the latest stable deb package with dpkg from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/fortune-mod_1.99.1-7_amd64.deb. I've tried uninstalling fortune and fortune-mod and re-installing them with aptitude to no avail. What could the issue be?










share|improve this question























  • How did you install it?

    – Parto
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:13











  • Just a basic sudo apt-get install fortune. I also tried sudo apt-get autoremove fortune fortune-mod and then re-installed with sudo aptitude install fortune.

    – Alex W
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:22














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So, I have installed fortune on my Rackspace server but if I run it without any arguments it says



No fortunes found


I installed the package as root so there shouldn't be a permissions issue. The directory /usr/share/games/fortunes doesn't even exist which is where it's supposed to store the fortunes. I thought it might be a Rackspace package issue so I install the latest stable deb package with dpkg from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/fortune-mod_1.99.1-7_amd64.deb. I've tried uninstalling fortune and fortune-mod and re-installing them with aptitude to no avail. What could the issue be?










share|improve this question














So, I have installed fortune on my Rackspace server but if I run it without any arguments it says



No fortunes found


I installed the package as root so there shouldn't be a permissions issue. The directory /usr/share/games/fortunes doesn't even exist which is where it's supposed to store the fortunes. I thought it might be a Rackspace package issue so I install the latest stable deb package with dpkg from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/fortune-mod_1.99.1-7_amd64.deb. I've tried uninstalling fortune and fortune-mod and re-installing them with aptitude to no avail. What could the issue be?







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  • How did you install it?

    – Parto
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:13











  • Just a basic sudo apt-get install fortune. I also tried sudo apt-get autoremove fortune fortune-mod and then re-installed with sudo aptitude install fortune.

    – Alex W
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:22



















  • How did you install it?

    – Parto
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:13











  • Just a basic sudo apt-get install fortune. I also tried sudo apt-get autoremove fortune fortune-mod and then re-installed with sudo aptitude install fortune.

    – Alex W
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:22

















How did you install it?

– Parto
Dec 1 '15 at 15:13





How did you install it?

– Parto
Dec 1 '15 at 15:13













Just a basic sudo apt-get install fortune. I also tried sudo apt-get autoremove fortune fortune-mod and then re-installed with sudo aptitude install fortune.

– Alex W
Dec 1 '15 at 15:22





Just a basic sudo apt-get install fortune. I also tried sudo apt-get autoremove fortune fortune-mod and then re-installed with sudo aptitude install fortune.

– Alex W
Dec 1 '15 at 15:22










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As far as I know, the fortune-mod package only contains the server/engine, not the fortunes to serve. You need to install a package containing actual fortunes as well (try fortunes-min)






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  • 1





    So I ran sudo apt-cache search fortune and there was a package called fortunes along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to install fortunes without installing fortune and vice versa. I believe the fortune data files are listed as a dependency in the normal repository, this must just be a Rackspace thing. Thanks!

    – Alex W
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:24



















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The package fortune (or fortune-mod) only contain the program to display the fortune cookies, not the cookies (texts) themselves.



You need to additionally install a fortunes* package. Which ones are available for your system can be easily checked with the command apt-cache search "^fortunes". On my system, the output is:



fortunes - Data files containing fortune cookies
fortunes-bg - Bulgarian data files for fortune
fortunes-bofh-excuses - BOFH excuses for fortune
fortunes-br - Data files with fortune cookies in Portuguese
fortunes-cs - Czech and Slovak data files for fortune
fortunes-de - German data files for fortune
fortunes-debian-hints - Debian Hints for fortune
fortunes-eo - Collection of esperanto fortunes.
fortunes-eo-ascii - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ascii encoding).
fortunes-eo-iso3 - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ISO3 encoding).
fortunes-es - Spanish fortune database
fortunes-es-off - Spanish fortune cookies (Offensive section)
fortunes-fr - French fortunes cookies
fortunes-ga - Irish (Gaelige) data files for fortune
fortunes-it - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies
fortunes-it-off - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies, offensive section
fortunes-mario - Fortunes files from Mario
fortunes-min - Data files containing selected fortune cookies
fortunes-off - Data files containing offensive fortune cookies
fortunes-pl - Polish data files for fortune
fortunes-ru - Russian data files for fortune
fortunes-spam - fortunes taken from SPAM messages
fortunes-ubuntu-server - Ubuntu server tips for fortune


Install those packages that interest you, usually you want fortunes-min (small package of about 60 kB with few fortune cookies) or fortunes (larger package of about 1 MB with over 15,000 cookies).



The others are either localized (German or Spanish cookies for example) or cover a specific topic only (e.g. spam or offensive). You may of course install multiple fortunes packages.



If you install a language package, these are installed on a subfolder of /usr/share/games/fortunes/ so you may need to prefix it to the database name:



fortune -e -s es/asimov.fortunes ubuntu-server-tips




Oh, and don't forget: fortune works best in combination with cowsay! :D



$ fortune | cowsay
_____________________________________
/ A handful of patience is worth more
than a bushel of brains. /
-------------------------------------
^__^
(oo)_______
(__) )/
||----w |
|| ||





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  • in order to display it to every new terminal, add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc: "if [ -x /usr/games/cowsay -a -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then fortune | cowthink fi"

    – krankuba
    Sep 5 '18 at 11:51













  • To have only short ones and in one line fortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'.

    – Pablo Bianchi
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As far as I know, the fortune-mod package only contains the server/engine, not the fortunes to serve. You need to install a package containing actual fortunes as well (try fortunes-min)






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    So I ran sudo apt-cache search fortune and there was a package called fortunes along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to install fortunes without installing fortune and vice versa. I believe the fortune data files are listed as a dependency in the normal repository, this must just be a Rackspace thing. Thanks!

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    Dec 1 '15 at 15:24
















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As far as I know, the fortune-mod package only contains the server/engine, not the fortunes to serve. You need to install a package containing actual fortunes as well (try fortunes-min)






share|improve this answer



















  • 1





    So I ran sudo apt-cache search fortune and there was a package called fortunes along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to install fortunes without installing fortune and vice versa. I believe the fortune data files are listed as a dependency in the normal repository, this must just be a Rackspace thing. Thanks!

    – Alex W
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:24














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As far as I know, the fortune-mod package only contains the server/engine, not the fortunes to serve. You need to install a package containing actual fortunes as well (try fortunes-min)






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As far as I know, the fortune-mod package only contains the server/engine, not the fortunes to serve. You need to install a package containing actual fortunes as well (try fortunes-min)







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    So I ran sudo apt-cache search fortune and there was a package called fortunes along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to install fortunes without installing fortune and vice versa. I believe the fortune data files are listed as a dependency in the normal repository, this must just be a Rackspace thing. Thanks!

    – Alex W
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:24














  • 1





    So I ran sudo apt-cache search fortune and there was a package called fortunes along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to install fortunes without installing fortune and vice versa. I believe the fortune data files are listed as a dependency in the normal repository, this must just be a Rackspace thing. Thanks!

    – Alex W
    Dec 1 '15 at 15:24








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1





So I ran sudo apt-cache search fortune and there was a package called fortunes along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to install fortunes without installing fortune and vice versa. I believe the fortune data files are listed as a dependency in the normal repository, this must just be a Rackspace thing. Thanks!

– Alex W
Dec 1 '15 at 15:24





So I ran sudo apt-cache search fortune and there was a package called fortunes along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to install fortunes without installing fortune and vice versa. I believe the fortune data files are listed as a dependency in the normal repository, this must just be a Rackspace thing. Thanks!

– Alex W
Dec 1 '15 at 15:24













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The package fortune (or fortune-mod) only contain the program to display the fortune cookies, not the cookies (texts) themselves.



You need to additionally install a fortunes* package. Which ones are available for your system can be easily checked with the command apt-cache search "^fortunes". On my system, the output is:



fortunes - Data files containing fortune cookies
fortunes-bg - Bulgarian data files for fortune
fortunes-bofh-excuses - BOFH excuses for fortune
fortunes-br - Data files with fortune cookies in Portuguese
fortunes-cs - Czech and Slovak data files for fortune
fortunes-de - German data files for fortune
fortunes-debian-hints - Debian Hints for fortune
fortunes-eo - Collection of esperanto fortunes.
fortunes-eo-ascii - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ascii encoding).
fortunes-eo-iso3 - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ISO3 encoding).
fortunes-es - Spanish fortune database
fortunes-es-off - Spanish fortune cookies (Offensive section)
fortunes-fr - French fortunes cookies
fortunes-ga - Irish (Gaelige) data files for fortune
fortunes-it - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies
fortunes-it-off - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies, offensive section
fortunes-mario - Fortunes files from Mario
fortunes-min - Data files containing selected fortune cookies
fortunes-off - Data files containing offensive fortune cookies
fortunes-pl - Polish data files for fortune
fortunes-ru - Russian data files for fortune
fortunes-spam - fortunes taken from SPAM messages
fortunes-ubuntu-server - Ubuntu server tips for fortune


Install those packages that interest you, usually you want fortunes-min (small package of about 60 kB with few fortune cookies) or fortunes (larger package of about 1 MB with over 15,000 cookies).



The others are either localized (German or Spanish cookies for example) or cover a specific topic only (e.g. spam or offensive). You may of course install multiple fortunes packages.



If you install a language package, these are installed on a subfolder of /usr/share/games/fortunes/ so you may need to prefix it to the database name:



fortune -e -s es/asimov.fortunes ubuntu-server-tips




Oh, and don't forget: fortune works best in combination with cowsay! :D



$ fortune | cowsay
_____________________________________
/ A handful of patience is worth more
than a bushel of brains. /
-------------------------------------
^__^
(oo)_______
(__) )/
||----w |
|| ||





share|improve this answer


























  • in order to display it to every new terminal, add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc: "if [ -x /usr/games/cowsay -a -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then fortune | cowthink fi"

    – krankuba
    Sep 5 '18 at 11:51













  • To have only short ones and in one line fortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'.

    – Pablo Bianchi
    14 mins ago


















6














The package fortune (or fortune-mod) only contain the program to display the fortune cookies, not the cookies (texts) themselves.



You need to additionally install a fortunes* package. Which ones are available for your system can be easily checked with the command apt-cache search "^fortunes". On my system, the output is:



fortunes - Data files containing fortune cookies
fortunes-bg - Bulgarian data files for fortune
fortunes-bofh-excuses - BOFH excuses for fortune
fortunes-br - Data files with fortune cookies in Portuguese
fortunes-cs - Czech and Slovak data files for fortune
fortunes-de - German data files for fortune
fortunes-debian-hints - Debian Hints for fortune
fortunes-eo - Collection of esperanto fortunes.
fortunes-eo-ascii - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ascii encoding).
fortunes-eo-iso3 - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ISO3 encoding).
fortunes-es - Spanish fortune database
fortunes-es-off - Spanish fortune cookies (Offensive section)
fortunes-fr - French fortunes cookies
fortunes-ga - Irish (Gaelige) data files for fortune
fortunes-it - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies
fortunes-it-off - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies, offensive section
fortunes-mario - Fortunes files from Mario
fortunes-min - Data files containing selected fortune cookies
fortunes-off - Data files containing offensive fortune cookies
fortunes-pl - Polish data files for fortune
fortunes-ru - Russian data files for fortune
fortunes-spam - fortunes taken from SPAM messages
fortunes-ubuntu-server - Ubuntu server tips for fortune


Install those packages that interest you, usually you want fortunes-min (small package of about 60 kB with few fortune cookies) or fortunes (larger package of about 1 MB with over 15,000 cookies).



The others are either localized (German or Spanish cookies for example) or cover a specific topic only (e.g. spam or offensive). You may of course install multiple fortunes packages.



If you install a language package, these are installed on a subfolder of /usr/share/games/fortunes/ so you may need to prefix it to the database name:



fortune -e -s es/asimov.fortunes ubuntu-server-tips




Oh, and don't forget: fortune works best in combination with cowsay! :D



$ fortune | cowsay
_____________________________________
/ A handful of patience is worth more
than a bushel of brains. /
-------------------------------------
^__^
(oo)_______
(__) )/
||----w |
|| ||





share|improve this answer


























  • in order to display it to every new terminal, add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc: "if [ -x /usr/games/cowsay -a -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then fortune | cowthink fi"

    – krankuba
    Sep 5 '18 at 11:51













  • To have only short ones and in one line fortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'.

    – Pablo Bianchi
    14 mins ago
















6












6








6







The package fortune (or fortune-mod) only contain the program to display the fortune cookies, not the cookies (texts) themselves.



You need to additionally install a fortunes* package. Which ones are available for your system can be easily checked with the command apt-cache search "^fortunes". On my system, the output is:



fortunes - Data files containing fortune cookies
fortunes-bg - Bulgarian data files for fortune
fortunes-bofh-excuses - BOFH excuses for fortune
fortunes-br - Data files with fortune cookies in Portuguese
fortunes-cs - Czech and Slovak data files for fortune
fortunes-de - German data files for fortune
fortunes-debian-hints - Debian Hints for fortune
fortunes-eo - Collection of esperanto fortunes.
fortunes-eo-ascii - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ascii encoding).
fortunes-eo-iso3 - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ISO3 encoding).
fortunes-es - Spanish fortune database
fortunes-es-off - Spanish fortune cookies (Offensive section)
fortunes-fr - French fortunes cookies
fortunes-ga - Irish (Gaelige) data files for fortune
fortunes-it - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies
fortunes-it-off - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies, offensive section
fortunes-mario - Fortunes files from Mario
fortunes-min - Data files containing selected fortune cookies
fortunes-off - Data files containing offensive fortune cookies
fortunes-pl - Polish data files for fortune
fortunes-ru - Russian data files for fortune
fortunes-spam - fortunes taken from SPAM messages
fortunes-ubuntu-server - Ubuntu server tips for fortune


Install those packages that interest you, usually you want fortunes-min (small package of about 60 kB with few fortune cookies) or fortunes (larger package of about 1 MB with over 15,000 cookies).



The others are either localized (German or Spanish cookies for example) or cover a specific topic only (e.g. spam or offensive). You may of course install multiple fortunes packages.



If you install a language package, these are installed on a subfolder of /usr/share/games/fortunes/ so you may need to prefix it to the database name:



fortune -e -s es/asimov.fortunes ubuntu-server-tips




Oh, and don't forget: fortune works best in combination with cowsay! :D



$ fortune | cowsay
_____________________________________
/ A handful of patience is worth more
than a bushel of brains. /
-------------------------------------
^__^
(oo)_______
(__) )/
||----w |
|| ||





share|improve this answer















The package fortune (or fortune-mod) only contain the program to display the fortune cookies, not the cookies (texts) themselves.



You need to additionally install a fortunes* package. Which ones are available for your system can be easily checked with the command apt-cache search "^fortunes". On my system, the output is:



fortunes - Data files containing fortune cookies
fortunes-bg - Bulgarian data files for fortune
fortunes-bofh-excuses - BOFH excuses for fortune
fortunes-br - Data files with fortune cookies in Portuguese
fortunes-cs - Czech and Slovak data files for fortune
fortunes-de - German data files for fortune
fortunes-debian-hints - Debian Hints for fortune
fortunes-eo - Collection of esperanto fortunes.
fortunes-eo-ascii - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ascii encoding).
fortunes-eo-iso3 - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ISO3 encoding).
fortunes-es - Spanish fortune database
fortunes-es-off - Spanish fortune cookies (Offensive section)
fortunes-fr - French fortunes cookies
fortunes-ga - Irish (Gaelige) data files for fortune
fortunes-it - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies
fortunes-it-off - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies, offensive section
fortunes-mario - Fortunes files from Mario
fortunes-min - Data files containing selected fortune cookies
fortunes-off - Data files containing offensive fortune cookies
fortunes-pl - Polish data files for fortune
fortunes-ru - Russian data files for fortune
fortunes-spam - fortunes taken from SPAM messages
fortunes-ubuntu-server - Ubuntu server tips for fortune


Install those packages that interest you, usually you want fortunes-min (small package of about 60 kB with few fortune cookies) or fortunes (larger package of about 1 MB with over 15,000 cookies).



The others are either localized (German or Spanish cookies for example) or cover a specific topic only (e.g. spam or offensive). You may of course install multiple fortunes packages.



If you install a language package, these are installed on a subfolder of /usr/share/games/fortunes/ so you may need to prefix it to the database name:



fortune -e -s es/asimov.fortunes ubuntu-server-tips




Oh, and don't forget: fortune works best in combination with cowsay! :D



$ fortune | cowsay
_____________________________________
/ A handful of patience is worth more
than a bushel of brains. /
-------------------------------------
^__^
(oo)_______
(__) )/
||----w |
|| ||






share|improve this answer














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  • in order to display it to every new terminal, add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc: "if [ -x /usr/games/cowsay -a -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then fortune | cowthink fi"

    – krankuba
    Sep 5 '18 at 11:51













  • To have only short ones and in one line fortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'.

    – Pablo Bianchi
    14 mins ago





















  • in order to display it to every new terminal, add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc: "if [ -x /usr/games/cowsay -a -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then fortune | cowthink fi"

    – krankuba
    Sep 5 '18 at 11:51













  • To have only short ones and in one line fortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'.

    – Pablo Bianchi
    14 mins ago



















in order to display it to every new terminal, add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc: "if [ -x /usr/games/cowsay -a -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then fortune | cowthink fi"

– krankuba
Sep 5 '18 at 11:51







in order to display it to every new terminal, add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc: "if [ -x /usr/games/cowsay -a -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then fortune | cowthink fi"

– krankuba
Sep 5 '18 at 11:51















To have only short ones and in one line fortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'.

– Pablo Bianchi
14 mins ago







To have only short ones and in one line fortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'.

– Pablo Bianchi
14 mins ago




















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