[Mageia-discuss] Make urpmi detect if you don't have a program and install it

[Frank Griffin]

On 11/14/2011 11:05 AM, Aaron Mendo Andrade wrote:
> Hello, Would it be possible make that urpmi detect if  to run command 
> or a run program to detect if you don't have it and install it? I 
> think it's a good idea and makes a big difference to both users and 
> developers of mageia.
I sympathize with what you want, but the fact is that urpmi is not 
involved.  You type the non-existent program name, and the shell just 
tells you there is no such file in the $PATH.

Of course, you could write a small script to do what the shell does 
(search your $PATH), run the program if found, or launch urpmi if it's 
not, but you'd have to always use the script from the command line, or 
change the executable in every menu entry.....
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