Ubuntu
fortune-mod package

fortune doesn't work with multiple languages

Bug #888249 reported by hdante
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fortune-mod (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
fortunes-es (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

After installing multiple fortunes from multiple languages, fortune only displays one of them. It's only possible to select 1 language, using LC_MESSAGES environment variable. Fortune should allow multiple languages, irrespective of locale settings.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in fortune-mod (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Nathan Collins (ntc2) wrote :

Related, on Ubuntu 18.04, the fortune program provided by the fortune-mod package doesn't work at all if the only fortune packages installed are not in English. I have the fortune-mod, fortunes-es, and fortunes-es-off packages installed, but when I run /usr/games/fortune (with or without the -a option) it fails:

$ fortune [-a]
fortune: /usr/share/games/fortunes: No fortune files in directory.
fortune:/usr/share/games/fortunes not a fortune file or directory
No fortunes found

If I manually specify the Spanish fortune directories then it works:

$ fortune /usr/share/games/fortunes/es /usr/share/games/fortunes/es/off
<prints a fortune in Spanish>

My system is configured to use English as the main language, in case that's relevant.

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