missing "sudo apt-get install" instructions when more than one package provides a binary

[Dustin Kirkland ]

<sabdfl> landscape@maas-1-14:~$ flex
<sabdfl> The program 'flex' can be found in the following packages:
<sabdfl> * flex
<sabdfl> * flex-old
<sabdfl> Ask your administrator to install one of them
<sabdfl> when did that change from "sudo apt-get install" one of those packages?
<sabdfl> most people are their own administrator and won't know who to ask :)

...

<kirkland> elif len(packages) > 1:
<kirkland> packages.sort(key=cmp_to_key(self.sortByComponent))
<kirkland> print(_("The program '%s' can be found in the following packages:") % command, file=sys.stderr)
<kirkland> you get that message when the command can be found in multiple packages

Looks like it's been that way for a little while, at least.

It would be great if command-not-found would show the "sudo apt-get install" instructions, for each package in this case. It's friendlier, and really handy to have the text to copy and paste (if you are the administrator).

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

@mpt, can you have a look, and help guide the UI/UX for this bit?

@cjwatson, you also might have a suggestion/fix in mind :-)

Thanks!
Dustin

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

Yeah, it's been like that forever. I'm open to making changes BUT I cannot upload any changes to this package so I kind of lost interest in pushing changes

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Suggested fix in lp:~kirkland/command-not-found/1372999

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

BTW: this is also because the user didn't have the right to install packages

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

Ah, no I was wrong.

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

_so_ in any case, if someone can hand me the rights to this package I could work on fixing it (and other bugs)