[ILUG] love this feature

[Philip Reynolds]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Kae Verens <kae at verens.com> wrote:
> /me hates it.
>
> every time I mis-type something, I then have to cancel the stupid thing,
> which starts trying to install my mis-typed command.
>
> also, if you do it as a non-root user, it goes, downloads the needed files,
> then totally fails to ask for root permissions to install it.

If you're using bash, it's more than likely hooking into
command_not_found_handle

$ sl
The program 'sl' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install sl
sl: command not found
$ unset -f command_not_found_handle
$ sl
bash: sl: command not found

Phil.