Invoking a nonexistent application in F13 causes a pause

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Sun Jun 6 23:58:16 UTC 2010


Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> If I invoke a nonexistent application in gnome-terminal on a system
> running F13 this happens:
>         $ sdf
>         Command not found.
>         <about 1/3 second pause>
>         $
> If yum is running this happens:
>         $ sdf
>         Command not found.
>          * Waiting for package manager lock...
>         <pause till yum finishes>
>         $
>
> What's happening?  Will some application put out a message offering
> to download the app?

Yeah.  There's a command not found hook in bash (inspired by an Ubuntu
patch, IIRC).  This went into Fedora 12 I believe:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackageKitCommandNotFound

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