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crossfire, 2014-11-16 00:54:30

Why are Russian quotes not included in the fortunes program?

Ubuntu Server 12.10 LTS
Installed a simple program of daily quotes in CLI fortunes, everything works in English.
Then I installed the fortunes-ru package, but no quotes in Russian appeared.
What else needs to be done for this?

$ aptitude search fortune
v   fortune                                                                 -                                                                                   
v   fortune-cookie-db                                                       -                                                                                   
v   fortune-coookie-db                                                      -                                                                                   
i   fortune-mod                                                             - provides fortune cookies on demand                                                
p   fortune-zh                                                              - Chinese Data files for fortune                                                    
p   fortunes                                                                - Data files containing fortune cookies                                             
p   fortunes-bg                                                             - Bulgarian data files for fortune                                                  
p   fortunes-bofh-excuses                                                   - BOFH excuses for fortune                                                          
p   fortunes-br                                                             - Data files with fortune cookies in Portuguese                                     
p   fortunes-cs                                                             - Czech and Slovak data files for fortune                                           
p   fortunes-de                                                             - German data files for fortune                                                     
p   fortunes-debian-hints                                                   - Debian Hints for fortune                                                          
p   fortunes-eo                                                             - Collection of esperanto fortunes.                                                 
p   fortunes-eo-ascii                                                       - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ascii encoding).                                
p   fortunes-eo-iso3                                                        - Collection of esperanto fortunes (ISO3 encoding).                                 
p   fortunes-es                                                             - Spanish fortune database                                                          
p   fortunes-es-off                                                         - Spanish fortune cookies (Offensive section)                                       
p   fortunes-fr                                                             - French fortunes cookies                                                           
p   fortunes-ga                                                             - Irish (Gaelige) data files for fortune                                            
p   fortunes-it                                                             - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies                                     
p   fortunes-it-off                                                         - Data files containing Italian fortune cookies, offensive section                  
p   fortunes-mario                                                          - Fortunes files from Mario                                                         
i A fortunes-min                                                            - Data files containing selected fortune cookies                                    
p   fortunes-off                                                            - Data files containing offensive fortune cookies                                   
p   fortunes-pl                                                             - Polish data files for fortune                                                     
i   fortunes-ru                                                             - Russian data files for fortune                                                    
p   fortunes-spam                                                           - fortunes taken from SPAM messages                                                 
p   fortunes-ubuntu-server                                                  - Ubuntu server tips for fortune                                                    
p   libfortune-perl                                                         - Perl modul

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crossfire, 2014-11-16
@crossfire

Using the method of scientific poke, I found out that the fortune ru command displays one Russian quote.
Now we create the eng directory and copy all the files from /usr/share/games/fortunes there, then transfer all the files from the ru directory to the same directory . Done, the default program always shows only Russian quotes! And on command fortune eng English.

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Eddy_Em, 2014-11-16
@Eddy_Em

What does fortune -f show?
And in general, we read man fortune

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Ergil Osin, 2014-11-17
@Ernillew

Ubuntu Server 12.10 LTS
Doesn't happen.
LTS - even years, April release. 10.04, 12.04, 14.04.

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