[colug-432] Install unique

Rob Funk rfunk at funknet.net
Thu Jan 27 12:21:37 EST 2011


On Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:08:53 pm Thomas W. cranston wrote:
> I ran the command ls /bin /usr/bin | sort | uniq | less w/the result:
> 
> The program 'unique' is currently not installed.  You can install it by
> typing:
> sudo apt-get install john

Are you sure you typed "uniq" and not "unique"?
Could you possibly have "uniq" aliased to "unique"?
What do you get when you run "type uniq"?
How about "dpkg -S /usr/bin/uniq"?

The uniq command is in the "coreutils" package on my Ubuntu Maverick machine, 
btw.


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