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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?
apt permissions dpkg root fortune
add a comment |
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?
apt permissions dpkg root fortune
How did you install it?
– Parto
Dec 1 '15 at 15:13
Just a basicsudo apt-get install fortune
. I also triedsudo apt-get autoremove fortune fortune-mod
and then re-installed withsudo aptitude install fortune
.
– Alex W
Dec 1 '15 at 15:22
add a comment |
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?
apt permissions dpkg root fortune
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?
apt permissions dpkg root fortune
apt permissions dpkg root fortune
asked Dec 1 '15 at 15:07
Alex WAlex W
27839
27839
How did you install it?
– Parto
Dec 1 '15 at 15:13
Just a basicsudo apt-get install fortune
. I also triedsudo apt-get autoremove fortune fortune-mod
and then re-installed withsudo aptitude install fortune
.
– Alex W
Dec 1 '15 at 15:22
add a comment |
How did you install it?
– Parto
Dec 1 '15 at 15:13
Just a basicsudo apt-get install fortune
. I also triedsudo apt-get autoremove fortune fortune-mod
and then re-installed withsudo 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
add a comment |
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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
)
1
So I ransudo apt-cache search fortune
and there was a package calledfortunes
along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to installfortunes
without installingfortune
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
add a comment |
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 |
|| ||
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 linefortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'
.
– Pablo Bianchi
14 mins ago
add a comment |
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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
)
1
So I ransudo apt-cache search fortune
and there was a package calledfortunes
along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to installfortunes
without installingfortune
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
add a comment |
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
)
1
So I ransudo apt-cache search fortune
and there was a package calledfortunes
along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to installfortunes
without installingfortune
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
add a comment |
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
)
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
)
answered Dec 1 '15 at 15:15
sstassta
54327
54327
1
So I ransudo apt-cache search fortune
and there was a package calledfortunes
along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to installfortunes
without installingfortune
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
add a comment |
1
So I ransudo apt-cache search fortune
and there was a package calledfortunes
along with tons of other language packages which had them in every different language. Strangely, I was able to installfortunes
without installingfortune
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
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
add a comment |
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 |
|| ||
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 linefortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'
.
– Pablo Bianchi
14 mins ago
add a comment |
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 |
|| ||
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 linefortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'
.
– Pablo Bianchi
14 mins ago
add a comment |
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 |
|| ||
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 |
|| ||
edited 16 mins ago
Pablo Bianchi
3,12521636
3,12521636
answered Dec 1 '15 at 16:35
Byte CommanderByte Commander
66.6k27181310
66.6k27181310
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 linefortune -s -n 80 | paste -s | awk '{$2=$2};1'
.
– Pablo Bianchi
14 mins ago
add a comment |
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 linefortune -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
add a comment |
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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 triedsudo apt-get autoremove fortune fortune-mod
and then re-installed withsudo aptitude install fortune
.– Alex W
Dec 1 '15 at 15:22