Recommend tracepath for "traceroute" and "tracert"

[Scott Ritchie]

Binary package hint: command-not-found

Tracepath provides better functionality than traceroute does and is installed by default. Without a command not found entry, many might install the traceroute package when they would be better served by just using tracepath. tracert is the equivalent windows command, so a recommendation there would help as well.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 16 18:42:24 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100113)
Package: command-not-found 0.2.40ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic
SourcePackage: command-not-found
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic x86_64

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

I can add support for "better try command %s" support.
Is anyone interested in preparing a good list of discouraged commands and their better replacements?

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Looks like this requires new development inside command-not-found to support <<you typed "foo", better try "bar" from package "bartools">>. This cannot be fixed as a server papercut, but the idea is definitely worth looking at (for 10.10 ?).

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

We should have a session about improving best practice pointers like those at UDS, hopefully coming up with a list for you :)

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

This would be great (AFAIK I'm attendig this UDS :-)

The new code in trunk already has some support for this.
I hope to finish this and release next version this week.
I added new module that can easily accomodate all kinds of quirks for current distro.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Back on track for the Maverick Papercuts cycle.
Zygmunt: did you make any progress on supporting those "recommendations" in command-not-found ?

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

Yes, partial.

This feature is implemented in the infrastructure bit of c-n-f. What is not missing is a new fronted/UI client that will be able to use this data. I'll push existing code into lp:command-not-found trunk later today. The frontend can be developed quickly, even for alphas.

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

I would seriously welcome contributors and testers for the new version (in that order). Volunteers should ping me in #ubuntu-devel on freenode.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Setting papercut nomination to incomplete, as upstream support for "suggestions" is not ready yet.

[Joshua Powers (powersj)]

Cleaning up old papercuts, this appears fixed. Output from xenial below:

$ traceroute
The program 'traceroute' can be found in the following packages:
 * inetutils-traceroute
 * traceroute
Try: sudo apt install <selected package>

$ tracert
No command 'tracert' found, did you mean:
 Command 'tracer' from package 'pvm-dev' (universe)
 Command 'tracert6' from package 'ndisc6' (universe)
tracert: command not found

Marking fixed released.