aptitude & bash completion

[Art Alexion]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 21:11, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:46 pm, Donn wrote:
> > Wild. I must have installed that via some other package and was not even
> > aware of it. (Although, I cannot find any trace of it on my system.)
>
> No, either you don't need it, or we have different ideas about what
> having "bash completion" and "aptitude" "working together" mean.
>
> If I type:
>
> 	sudo aptitude install kde-[TAB]
>
> I get a huge list of kde-foo kde-bar kde-dingle kde-dongle kde-blah. 
> That's bash completion, is it not?

I think we have similar ideas.  The odd thing is that if you don't need it, I 
don't know why simply installing it fixed my system.


> I don't have grep-status or dctrl-tools, and I'm running Dapper.

The package in dapper that contains grep-status is grep-dctrl.  Try 'apt-cache 
show grep-dctrl' to see if that is installed.  You may also try 'locate 
grep-status'.


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