[Solved] bash hash weboob-config??

[catch22]

Lately I always get this message when starting up a terminal and I have no idea what it means

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bash: hash: weboob-config: not found

[xenopeek]

Searching for weboob-config shows this has something to do with "web outside of browsers" program. Is that something you had installed at some point? The old website is dead, it's now called woob: https://woob.tech/

If you run the hash command in the terminal, does it return anything other than "hash: hash table empty"?

Might it be you (or the program) added weboob-config to your startup files? See if grep -s weboob ~/.* turns up anything.

[catch22]

Searching for weboob-config shows this has something to do with "web outside of browsers" program. Is that something you had installed at some point? The old website is dead, it's now called woob: https://woob.tech/

If you run the hash command in the terminal, does it return anything other than "hash: hash table empty"?

Might it be you (or the program) added weboob-config to your startup files? See if grep -s weboob ~/.* turns up anything.

It doesn't ring a bell, but my memory is getting less reliable with age

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hash
hits	command
   1	/usr/bin/screenfetch
   1	/bin/date
   3	/bin/sleep
   3	/usr/bin/play

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grep -s weboob ~/.*

returned nothing.

[xenopeek]

Hm. Perhaps it added it to system directory. Try:
grep -s weboob /etc/{bash.bashrc,profile,profile.d/*}

Hopefully that turns up something.

[catch22]

Hm. Perhaps it added it to system directory. Try:
grep -s weboob /etc/{bash.bashrc,profile,profile.d/*}

empty result..

[xenopeek]

Does locate weboob turn up anything?

Another thing you can try is from your menu open Users & Groups, create a new user account, log out and log in to the new user account, then open a terminal there and see if it has the same issue. That would help confirm whether a) this is an issue with some file in your own account's home directory or b) this is a system-wide issue with some file in system directories.

[catch22]

Does locate weboob turn up anything?

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locate weboob
/etc/bash_completion.d/weboob
/home/ludo/.config/weboob
/home/ludo/.config/weboob/backends
/home/ludo/.config/weboob/sources.list
/home/ludo/.local/share/weboob
/home/ludo/.local/share/weboob/icons
/home/ludo/.local/share/weboob/keyrings
/home/ludo/.local/share/weboob/modules
/home/ludo/.local/share/weboob/repositories
/home/ludo/.local/share/weboob/keyrings/http___updates_weboob_org_1_2_main_.gpg
/home/ludo/.local/share/weboob/keyrings/http___updates_weboob_org_1_2_main_.version
/home/ludo/.local/share/weboob/modules/1.2
/home/ludo/.local/share/weboob/repositories/00-http___updates_weboob_org_1_2_main_
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/weboob-qt:qboobmsg.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/weboob-qt:qcineoob.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/weboob-qt:qcookboob.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/weboob-qt:qflatboob.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/weboob-qt:qhandjoob.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/weboob-qt:qhavedate.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/weboob-qt:qvideoob.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/weboob-qt:qwebcontentedit.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/weboob-qt:weboob-config-qt.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/icons/weboob-config-qt.png
/var/lib/dpkg/info/python-weboob.list

[xenopeek]

Looks like you installed it. There are several weboob packages on Linux Mint 18.x and 19.x. It's not available on Linux Mint 20.x. Suggest you open Synaptic Package Manager from your menu, search for weboob and remove any installed weboob packages. Pay attention to what it says it will remove; it may be weboob was installed because some other package needs it. Removing weboob would also remove that.

[catch22]

Looks like you installed it. There are several weboob packages on Linux Mint 18.x and 19.x. It's not available on Linux Mint 20.x. Suggest you open Synaptic Package Manager from your menu, search for weboob and remove any installed weboob packages. Pay attention to what it says it will remove; it may be weboob was installed because some other package needs it. Removing weboob would also remove that.

weboob in Synaptic returns 4 packages, of which none is installed.
I ticked the package weboob for complete removal and it warned me it would also remove pythonweboob.
Starting the terminal now is back to normal

[xenopeek]

Ah now the puzzle pieces fit... you had already removed the package earlier but didn't purge remove it. Without purge it leaves configuration files in place. That's the /etc/bash_completion.d/weboob file. That was the problem--that file was there while the rest of weboob was removed.

If you don't need weboob again you can also remove those two directories in your home directory. Synpatic won't have deleted those for you. You can run this command to remove them both:
rm -rfv ~/.config/weboob/ ~/.local/share/weboob/

[catch22]

You can run this command to remove them both:
rm -rfv ~/.config/weboob/ ~/.local/share/weboob/

clean as a whistle now
Thanks again!