# Problem with fresh installation

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**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-with-fresh-installation/85187 "2018-04-12T20:12:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 14, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-with-fresh-installation/85187/9 "2018-04-14T13:11:22Z")

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Digital Ocean installs `gawk`. Every Ubuntu install that I can find has `gawk` installed. [https://askubuntu.com/questions/710379/do-i-need-to-install-awk-or-is-it-inbuilt-in-ubuntu](https://askubuntu.com/questions/710379/do-i-need-to-install-awk-or-is-it-inbuilt-in-ubuntu) claims that `mawk` is the default, but [Ubuntu – Error](https://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/lsb-core) says taht lsb-core includes

> [@](#):
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> [mawk](https://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/mawk)
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> a pattern scanning and text processing language
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> or [gawk](https://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gawk)
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> GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language

**OR**? But no explanation of what “or” means.

All I can figure is that there is some gnu-utils package that gets installed in a /stock install/ but that there is a minimal install that doesn’t override `mawk` with `gawk`.

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