fortune in English or Spanish

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Matthias Apitz wrote:

>El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió:
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>>Matthias Apitz wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the
>>>ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune
>>>itself. If there is a Spanish one a pointer would be nice too. Thx
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>>Fortune is part of the base system.
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>Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see it:
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Probably not stupid.

Although fortune *can* be part of the "base" system, it is part of the 
"games" distribution which might not have got installed.  In fact the 
"games" are none of them games any more and the likes of snake 
presumably live in the ports now.  Probably you can just run sysinstall 
with the first CD in place and install just the games - but I've never 
done that.  Being a lazy slacker I wouldn't ever consider a Unix install 
complete without *something* that passes for a game (for use during long 
compiles, of course :-))

If you do buildword's and things you might need to check that games 
haven't been turned off in /etc/make.conf which I presume is possible.

This is from 5.4 by I expect 6.X to be largely the same.

% which fortune
/usr/games/fortune

% ls /usr/games
./              caesar*         grdc*           pom*            
random*         unstr*
../             factor*         morse*          ppt*            rot13*
bcd*            fortune*        number*         primes*         strfile*

No clue about Spanish though.  Maybe you need to start translating ;-)

--Alex