Re: fortune not working


s. keeling wrote:
Peter Daum <gator_ml@xxxxxxxx>:
# dpkg -l fortune*|grep ii
ii fortune-mod 1.99.1-3.1 provides fortune cookies on demand
ii fortunes 1.99.1-3.1 Data files containing fortune cookies
ii fortunes-min 1.99.1-3.1 Data files containing fortune cookies

(0) phreaque /home/keeling_ pkgs fortune | egrep '^i'
i fortune-mod - provides fortune cookies on demand
i fortunes - Data files containing fortune cookies
i fortunes-min - Data files containing fortune cookies

fwiw, also etch. I can only guess charset clash (ASCII/utf-8), and it
knows not to bother opening anything as it knows it can't translate? Guess.

I normally use ISO8859-1, but the locale setting doesn't make a difference.
The installed data files only use ASCII anyway. Actually, I really can't
see much potential for something as simple as "fortune" to go wrong ;-)

I just tried an ages old fortune program that I still had around, which
(after adjusting the path of the data files with a symlink) works fine
with the Debian data files ...




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