aptitude & bash completion

[Art Alexion]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 11:32, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote:
> > Thanks to help from this people on this list, my switch from apt-get to
> > aptitude seems to be working fine now.
> >
> > One thing I am not getting (Dapper) is bash completion with aptitude like
> > I got with apt-get.
> >
> > Ex.
> > 'sudo apt-get i<tab>' results in 'sudo apt-get install'
> > 'sudo apt-get install bas<tab><tab> results in presenting me with choices
> > of packages begining with 'bas'
> >
> > None of this works with aptitude.
> >
> > Dapper comes with bash-3.1-2ubuntu10
> >
> > The current version of bash seems to support aptitude (see
> > http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml#completion).
> >
> > Is there a way to update my version of bash to support this?  I don't
> > mind hand patching the file as long as I know what to add.
>
> I don't see how aptitude would have affected that.  It works for me... (8
> packages from base to bastille)

Oh, it's not aptitude that affected anything.  Bash completion needs to know 
about aptitude as much as it knows about apt-get.  The current version of 
bash completion does.  How do I get those changes into Dapper.


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