aptitude & bash completion

[Art Alexion]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 13:55, Michel D'HOOGE wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 16:53:06 Art Alexion wrote:
> > my switch from apt-get to
> > aptitude seems to be working fine now.
>
> Welcome to the wonderful world of aptitude!
>
> > One thing I am not getting (Dapper) is bash completion with aptitude like
> > I got with apt-get.
>
> The aptitude completion is defined in /etc/bash_completion and I have the
> following lines:
> # Debian aptitude(1) completion
> #
> have aptitude && {
> have grep-status && {

I have these too.
>
> So you need aptitude -I guess this one is done- and grep-status. So maybe
> you need to install dctrl-tools which provides /usr/bin/grep-status. If
> this still doesn't work, let me know.

That did it.  The package for Dapper is grep-dctrl.  It wasn't installed.

Thanks so much Michel!

-- 

_____________________________________________________________
Art Alexion

PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661  92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A
Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for 
alarm.  Info @ 
http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html
_____________________________________________________________
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 309 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20070417/1223494a/attachment.sig>