Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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Finding the right package in OpenSolaris?

Ubuntu has a cool feature called command-not-found where they publish an index of all the binaries on the system, and the package that each one belongs to. When you combine this with the bash command-not-found hook, you get a default environment that responds to a missing command by telling you what package to download. (Sorry, [...]