HOWTO: Fix Could not find small cowfile!
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:37 pm
Every so often when you bring up a terminal window, you will get the message:
To provide a temporary fix until the cowsay package is updated, do the following command in a terminal window:
That command will make a symbolic link from the default.cow file, which appears to be the small cow to a link file named small.cow.
What that is saying is Mint Fortune which produces the quotes is wanting to use the /usr/share/cowsay/cows/small.cow file, but it does not exist.cowthink: Could not find small cowfile!
To provide a temporary fix until the cowsay package is updated, do the following command in a terminal window:
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sudo ln -s /usr/share/cowsay/cows/default.cow /usr/share/cowsay/cows/small.cow