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>
> Perhaps belenix could go one step ahead: If an app requires root use
> privelledges to run, then display a message "Run this command with
> sudo" or something like that, instead of the usual "Permission
> denied". Just a suggestion.
>
> Completely unrelated: how about adding "Did you mean" kind of
> suggestions. User tries - "spkg install openoffce". Instead of the
> usual, package not found, spkg could output a possible list of
> suggestions - Did you mean openoffice? This can be implemented using
> the Levenshtein word distance algorithm
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance). For invalid
> names, just calculate the levenshtein distance of the input package
> name with a list of all the packages and show few of the closest
> matches.
>   
Doesn't Ubuntu have this too??

root at Compaq2230s:~# apt-cache search iwconfig
iw - tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
knemo - network interfaces monitor for KDE's systray

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