Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

[ibm450]

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im sorry, but im not being disrespecting of opinions here, just expression my own opinion that i found that the fortune s*** very annoying and took up unnecessary space and time to load up terminal time? btw alot of people have requested of removing the stupid fortune thing any ways?????????????

so whats so dis-respectful of my own opinion????

[Mintylamb]

Actually I wasn't saying this to you specificaliy. If I had I would PM you.

[Husse]

Careful....

[x0fx3]

Thanks for the howto.

[Mr. Alex]

While you have the terminal open remove the fortune program.

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sudo apt-get remove fortune

Does it delete fortune database with all the quotes? Or after this command quotes are still in the system?

[rius64]

Very useful, thanks

[Totenglocke]

Well crap. I did sudo apt-get remove fortune, and it messed up my themes (default ones included in Mint). Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Mr. Alex]

Totenglocke, I got the same problem. Your theme must become available again after some time.

[BigSteve_G]

Anyone know the location & name of the file containing the quotes shown in the fortune cookies?

- I'm thinking of replacing the quotes with useful reminders on using commands? or maybe just my own jibberish (I've yet to decide)

[tower]

Try here
/usr/share/games/fortune

Here is the man page
http://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune

This is the format

A day for firm decisions!!!!! Or is it?
%
A few hours grace before the madness begins again.
%
A gift of a flower will soon be made to you.
%

There are quite a few collections of fortune mods on the net everything from Starwars to very rude!
Quotes are separated by a % on a separate line

[BigSteve_G]

-Thanks

Now let the madness start....

[Chacalo]

Thanks!

+1

[CodeCat]

I like the fortunes as such, but the ASCII cow takes up too much space. Any idea how I can get rid of the cow while still displaying the message itself, just on one line?

[michaudba]

I like the fortunes as such, but the ASCII cow takes up too much space. Any idea how I can get rid of the cow while still displaying the message itself, just on one line?

Here is a tutorial from the community on how to remove the cow:

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/73

Hmm.. My first post in the mint forums, less than a week into using linux again and already helping people. I love this community!

[Knowledge]

/usr/bin/mint-fortune

that is what my file says...should i delete it?
also it say i can't edit it because i am not the owner....i really want to get rid of the fortunes though...i really don't like them

[vincent]

Knowledge, have you read the first post in this thread and followed Clem's advice? It's really as simple as that...

[Knowledge]

Knowledge, have you read the first post in this thread and followed Clem's advice? It's really as simple as that...

i've tried that and all i get is another blank terminal line....back where i started...so i tried opening it my self and i only get read only permissions and i'm the only user and administrator on my laptop!

help please

[mikeymouse]

I have tried this method and in version 9 it does not work.
There is no /usr/games/fortune.
Are there any other ways to remove the fortune messages.
Thanks
mikeymouse

[vincent]

Knowledge, have you read the first post in this thread and followed Clem's advice? It's really as simple as that...

i've tried that and all i get is another blank terminal line....back where i started...so i tried opening it my self and i only get read only permissions and i'm the only user and administrator on my laptop!

help please

A blank terminal line? Isn't that what you want though? I mean, you don't want fortunes in your terminal, so when you re-open a terminal, you won't see any more fortunes. As I've said, if you followed those instructions and deleted the last line (/usr/bin/mint-fortune) in that bash.bashrc file, save and close it, close the current terminal, and open a new one, you'll no longer see fortunes; I just tried it myself and it works.

Mikeymouse, delete the last line in /etc/bash.bashrc, the line that says /usr/bin/mint-fortune.

[Knowledge]

A blank terminal line? Isn't that what you want though? I mean, you don't want fortunes in your terminal, so when you re-open a terminal, you won't see any more fortunes. As I've said, if you followed those instructions and deleted the last line (/usr/bin/mint-fortune) in that bash.bashrc file, save and close it, close the current terminal, and open a new one, you'll no longer see fortunes; I just tried it myself and it works.

Mikeymouse, delete the last line in /etc/bash.bashrc, the line that says /usr/bin/mint-fortune.

i'm trying to do what mikeymouse is trying to do but i can't delete that line! /usr/bin/mint-fortune


the file says i only have read only permissions.....so i can't edit it...therefore i still have fortunes