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Get recommened pacman install line when command not found

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In ubuntu, if I type a command for a application that is not installed, but that it knows about from a db, it gives me a message like this: Is there a way to get a similar message in Arch Linux?

Error Output

~ $ kate
The program 'kate' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install kate

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Fix for: Get recommened pacman install line when command not found

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So this seems to be part of python, in ubuntu its in: /usr/lib64/python2.7/dist-packages/CommandNotFound/CommandNotFound.py in the following function: I found the launchpad project that implements this: https://launchpad.net/command-not-found Hope t…

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