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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit version.

I am unable to use commands such as reset or clear in the terminal even though I have the ncurses-bin package installed. Here is the terminal output:

krathinavel@krathinavel-VPCCB45FN:~$ reset
The program 'reset' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install ncurses-bin
krathinavel@krathinavel-VPCCB45FN:~$ sudo apt-get install ncurses-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
ncurses-bin is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  lib32ncurses5 lib32tinfo5 libtinfo-dev:i386 libreadline6:i386 lib32tinfo-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

It is not completely essential to use reset but I like to clear my screen after sometime. Please help.

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Try using Ctrl+L instead – upapilot Jun 19 '12 at 9:50
What does ls -l /usr/bin/reset say? – Florian Diesch Jun 19 '12 at 9:57
Ctrl+L worked! ls -l /usr/bin/reset says no such file or directory – Kishore Jun 19 '12 at 12:05

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