Ubuntu – “fortune -o” (offensive fortunes) no fortunes found

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I downloaded fortunes but I can't get any offensive fortunes.

-o Choose only from potentially offensive aphorisms. The -o option is ignored if a fortune directory is specified.

I've tried:

$ sudo apt install fortune-mod
$ sudo apt install fortunes-min
$ sudo apt install fortunes
$ fortune -o
No Fortunes Found

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Based on the results of apt-cache search --names-only fortunes, it looks like the package you need (at least for offensiveness in the English language) is fortunes-off

fortunes-off - Data files containing offensive fortune cookies

To install it run:

sudo apt install fortunes-off

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This is explained in the manpages for fortune(6) and (especially) strfile(1).

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