bash "command not found" in Arch Linux

pkgfile includes a “command not found” hook that will automatically search the official repositories, when entering an unrecognized command.

First

make sure that pkgfile package have been installed. if not, do it as follows:

pacman -S pkgfile

Then

edit ~/.bashrc by vim ( or any text editor you perfer to. )

add the following line at the end of the file.

source /usr/share/doc/pkgfile/command-not-found.bash

logout and login again. you should got the magic.

(ps. instead of re-login, you could just execute that line, which seems more simple)

Test

try to enter a command haven’t installed yet. you will get the packages info about it.

[root@ArchLinux ~]# wget
wget may be found in the following packages:
  extra/wget 1.16.3-1   /usr/bin/wget