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Command not found should suggest how to install like in bash

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

Run a command that’s not installed on your Linux machine, e.g. dtrace.

Expected behavior

jasonsh@jasonsh-ubd02:~$ dtrace
The program 'dtrace' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install systemtap-sdt-dev

Actual behavior

PS> dtrace                                                                                                               
dtrace : The term 'dtrace' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check 
the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ dtrace
+ ~~~~~~

Environment data

PS /home/jasonsh> $PSVersionTable                                                                                        

Name                           Value                                                                                    
----                           -----                                                                                    
PSVersion                      6.0.0-alpha                                                                              
PSEdition                      Core                                                                                     
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}                                                                  
BuildVersion                   3.0.0.0                                                                                  
GitCommitId                    v6.0.0-alpha.9                                                                           
CLRVersion                                                                                                              
WSManStackVersion              3.0                                                                                      
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3                                                                                      
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1                                                                                  


PS /home/jasonsh> uname -v                                                                                               
#49~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 29 20:22:11 UTC 2016

Issue Analytics

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:13 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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SteveL-MSFTcommented, May 25, 2018

Opened https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellGet/issues/287, if they can get the perf down to 100ms or less, I think we can add this capability into PSCore6 (but probably need to have it timeout after 250ms to not impact the interactive experience)

3reactions

iricigorcommented, Nov 1, 2018

I believe this functionality belongs to package management, but of course, it can/should be shipped together with PowerShell. I did proof-of-concept module which finds required information in about 20ms, so adding suggestions is not a problem. It is inspired with apt-get update from Linux, and it follows what Ilya described above. More information is in the issue Steve opened.