Howto: Remove Fortune messages in the Terminal

[vincent]

- open a terminal
- type "gksu gedit /etc/bash.bashrc"
- in the end of the file, remove the line /usr/games/fortune
- save the file.

Clem

Knowledge, I'm going to quote Clem's post above to make my point clear.

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gksudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc

Is typing the above command in a terminal all that difficult to do? This will give you the privileges needed to edit the file (that's the purpose of [gk]sudo).

[Knowledge]

- open a terminal
- type "gksu gedit /etc/bash.bashrc"
- in the end of the file, remove the line /usr/games/fortune
- save the file.

Clem

Knowledge, I'm going to quote Clem's post above to make my point clear.

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gksudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc

Is typing the above command in a terminal all that difficult to do? This will give you the privileges needed to edit the file (that's the purpose of [gk]sudo).

GOD I WISH I WASN'T A NOOB! i forgot i uninstalled gedit a couple of days ago....smh haha! so i just replace gedit with gvim and used gvim try and do it...but nope it didn't work i didn't give me the privledges so i guess gedit can do somethings that vim can't do although i like vim more...haha thanks for being patient with my noob-ish-ness haha!

all guru's were once noobs you know?

[vincent]

All right...well, if you don't have gedit (you can re-install it, you know), let's use nano instead, which I know works fairly well off the bat.

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sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc

Same thing, only keep in mind that in nano, CTRL + O is to save the file and CTRL + X is to exit nano.

[Knowledge]

All right...well, if you don't have gedit (you can re-install it, you know), let's use nano instead, which I know works fairly well off the bat.

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sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc

Same thing, only keep in mind that in nano, CTRL + O is to save the file and CTRL + X is to exit nano.

thanks but i already did re-installed and did this remove fortune thing already...but thanks though

[vincent]

Whew, glad you managed to get it done at last!

[Knowledge]

Whew, glad you managed to get it done at last!

haha thanks for dealing with my noob-ness

i learned a lot from trying to do this....like basic terminal commands and such. this was a really good experience though overall! thanks again

[trampintransit]

- open a terminal
- type "gksu gedit /etc/bash.bashrc"
- in the end of the file, remove the line /usr/games/fortune
- save the file.

Clem

i only have ... '/usr/bin/mint-fortune' at the end of the file, do i remove that?

[vincent]

Yes, remove that, or append the # symbol in front of it. Save the file and then re-open gnome-terminal.

[Brad]

You monsters!Who'd want to remove those fortune messages?Their the best!

[Brad]

why would you ever want to do that?

[zackattack_11843]

While you have the terminal open remove the fortune program.

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sudo apt-get remove fortune

any way to make the background black again like it was

[zackattack_11843]

Okay I'm sorry for what i did i tried to remove the little cartoons just to make the terminal look more ... official i guess?
but now all my appearances are messed up
i had it where it was black now everything is white and a lot of my icons completely changed
i typed this into the terminal

sudo apt-get remove fortune

i tried replacing "remove" with "install" but nothing
can somebody please help me to get things back to the way they were
i promise i won't ever disrespect the ways of linux again
thank you

[vincent]

Removing the fortunes wasn't the problem, it's that you removed a whole slew of other dependencies...

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vincent@vincent-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get remove fortune
[sudo] password for vincent:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting fortune-mod instead of fortune
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  fortune-mod fortunes-husse fortunes-min mint-artwork-common
  mint-artwork-gnome mintsystem
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 13.1MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.


I'd think you'd want to re-install mint-artwork-common, mint-artwork-gnome, and mintsystem, but I believe they'll use the fortunes packages as dependencies:

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vincent@vincent-laptop ~ $ apt depends mintsystem
mintsystem
Depends: <mint-info>
mint-info-x64
Depends: cowsay
Depends: <fortune>
fortune-mod
Depends: mint-common
Depends: fortunes-husse


So, to fix this and get rid of fortunes as well, type the following commands in a terminal:

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sudo apt-get install fortune-mod fortunes-husse fortunes-min mint-artwork-common mint-artwork-gnome mintsystem
gksudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc

And remove/comment out the line at the bottom, i.e. /usr/bin/mint-fortune. Save, and exit Gedit.

Open a new terminal. Your fortunes should no longer be there.

[gychang]

much improved after "sudo apt-get remove fortune" on my LM9 but now when I open the terminal I get this before the prompt.

"bash: /usr/bin/mint-fortune: No such file or directory"!, have to clear each time to get clean prompt. Any help out there?

gychang

[vincent]

much improved after "sudo apt-get remove fortune" on my LM9 but now when I open the terminal I get this before the prompt.

"bash: /usr/bin/mint-fortune: No such file or directory"!, have to clear each time to get clean prompt. Any help out there?

gychang

Open a terminal and type the following:

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gksudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc

in the end of the file, comment out/remove the line /usr/bin/mint-fortune, and then save the file. Open a new terminal and you should no longer see that line.

[richiclway]

Found this in bash.bashsrc:

if [ ! -f ~/.disable-mint-fortunes ]; then
/usr/bin/mint-fortune
fi

so perhaps create a file called ~/.disable-mint-fortunes

[cologne]

so perhaps create a file called ~/.disable-mint-fortunes

I also found this built-in solution, when I wanted to comment out the line /usr/bin/mint-fortune (as it reads in latest editions). The howtos don´t consider this new content of the config file, at least not yet.

I tried it out, created an empty file with this name and it works!

Generally I appreciate customizing through config files of the user instead of modifying system files. I think I will mention this method in the community website.

[kai3345]

Thanks Clem! This helps a lot! Thanks for the info! I won't take mine off though, I like some of them. But if they get too annoying, I might.

[telic]

Why on Earth is this sophomoric preference (still) a default for Mint users? Should it caution me to think twice about entrusting my enterprise environment to a collegiate OS mindset?

[tdockery97]

Why on Earth is this sophomoric preference (still) a default for Mint users? Should it caution me to think twice about entrusting my enterprise environment to a collegiate OS mindset?

You might want to open up Package Manager and install a sense of humor.