Comment 7 for bug 1749777

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David Britton (dpb) wrote :

Just copying over my description from Bug #1752185 here for reference:

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Bionic:

dpb@bierstadt:~[]$ jq
The program 'jq' can be found:
 + snap 'jq'
 * deb 'jq'

Xenial:

dpb@helo:~[]$ jq
The program 'jq' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install jq

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Some Observations that could use cleaning up:

1) why '+' for one and '*' for the other?

2) Neither of these things printed were as nice as what shows up on xenial, missing what the problem was: "program not currently installed", and the what the solution is. Perhaps s/can/cannot/? Still I prefer the previous reading in c-n-f.

3) Users may not be familiar with what 'deb' is, or what 'snap' is for that matter. They are more likely focused on the thing that can help solve their problem (sudo snap install jq, sudo apt install jq).

Versions used:

ii command-not-found 0.3ubuntu18.04.0~pre4 all Suggest installation of packages in interactive bash sessions
ii command-not-found-data 0.3ubuntu18.04.0~pre4 amd64 Set of data files for command-not-found.
ii python3-commandnotfound 0.3ubuntu18.04.0~pre4 all Python 3 bindings for command-not-found.