aptitude & bash completion

[Derek Broughton]

Michael Bach (gmx) wrote:

> 
> Only, I have no idea why bash gets the completion information for a
> normal user but not for root.

_That_ I can help with :-)  You need to enable it - by default it's turned
off:

# grep complet ~/.bashrc
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . /etc/bash_completion