Bash Autcompletion Only Halfwork

[Xplorer4x4]

So I decided to start from scratch rather then spending more then a day trying to battle kubuntu to take my new video card..on a clean install tab auto completion only work to an extent! For example if I type "sudo apt-g" <tab> it completes the apt-get part for me.If I type "sudo apt-get in" <tab> it completes the word install for me. However, the problem lies in suggesting package names. if I type "sudo apt-get install cal" <tab> it does nothing to suggest Calligra Suite or any Calligra tools. I reinstalled bash autcompletiion. I also uncomented everything related to auto completion in /etc/bash.bashrc

# enable bash completion in interactive shells
#if ! shopt -oq posix; then
#  if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
#    . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
#  elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
#    . /etc/bash_completion
#  fi
#fi

What am I missing?

[vinnywright]

what your "missing" is that auto completion dose not work like that ,,, it dose NOT suggest package names .
it will complete a application or command name and file/directory names .

VINNY

[Xplorer4x4]

I am not sure what you mean. For example, my lucid box did not have this out of the box. I installed bash-completion and the functionality I described works fine. On my Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 servers I seem to recall this being avaliable right out of the box. I believe it was avaliable out of the box in Kubuntu as well, but I reinstalleed bash-completion on this install and the functionality I dewscribed for package names is not working.Weather it is bash related or not, the fuctionality exists with out a doubt and I am simply trying to figure out what I need to do to get it working again as it is a life saver.

[vinnywright]

oops it dose work like that ,,,,,,sweet , but I must hit the tab key twice ,

VINNY

[Snowhog]

The single vs double tab behavior is as designed. If there is only one match available when tab is pressed it auto-completes. If there are multiple 'suggestions' based on what was typed before pressing tab, you have to press tab a second time to get a 'list of suggestions'.

[Xplorer4x4]

Yes, I should have clarified the single tba vs double tab but it's nto working regardless.

[Xplorer4x4]

For example sudo apt-get install firefox-loc<tab><tab> does nothing.

[Xplorer4x4]

Glad I coudl teach you something new Vinny. Always glad to help but that doesn;t happen often here.

And ps myspell cehck is broken atm so ignroe the horendous typos.

[Snowhog]

For example sudo apt-get install firefox-loc<tab><tab> does nothing.

It does here. First 'tab' produces:

paul@tanagra:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox-locale-

Second 'tab' produces:

paul@tanagra:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox-locale-
firefox-locale-af       firefox-locale-eu       firefox-locale-km       firefox-locale-pt
firefox-locale-ar       firefox-locale-fa       firefox-locale-kn       firefox-locale-ro
firefox-locale-as       firefox-locale-fi       firefox-locale-ko       firefox-locale-ru
firefox-locale-ast      firefox-locale-fr       firefox-locale-ku       firefox-locale-si
firefox-locale-be       firefox-locale-fy       firefox-locale-lg       firefox-locale-sk
firefox-locale-bg       firefox-locale-ga       firefox-locale-lt       firefox-locale-sl
firefox-locale-bn       firefox-locale-gd       firefox-locale-lv       firefox-locale-sq
firefox-locale-br       firefox-locale-gl       firefox-locale-mai      firefox-locale-sr
firefox-locale-bs       firefox-locale-gu       firefox-locale-mk       firefox-locale-sv
firefox-locale-ca       firefox-locale-he       firefox-locale-ml       firefox-locale-sw
firefox-locale-cs       firefox-locale-hi       firefox-locale-mn       firefox-locale-ta
firefox-locale-csb      firefox-locale-hr       firefox-locale-mr       firefox-locale-te
firefox-locale-cy       firefox-locale-hu       firefox-locale-nb       firefox-locale-th
firefox-locale-da       firefox-locale-hy       firefox-locale-nl       firefox-locale-tr
firefox-locale-de       firefox-locale-id       firefox-locale-nn       firefox-locale-uk
firefox-locale-el       firefox-locale-is       firefox-locale-nso      firefox-locale-vi
firefox-locale-en       firefox-locale-it       firefox-locale-oc       firefox-locale-zh-hans
firefox-locale-eo       firefox-locale-ja       firefox-locale-or       firefox-locale-zh-hant
firefox-locale-es       firefox-locale-ka       firefox-locale-pa       firefox-locale-zu
firefox-locale-et       firefox-locale-kk       firefox-locale-pl       
paul@tanagra:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox-locale-

Have you updated the package cache? I do it daily.

[Xplorer4x4]

It does here.

Exactly, thats why I asked what I am missing.

Have you updated the package cache? I do it daily.

Yep, although I probably should have mentioned that I copied over my entire /etc/apt folder from my back up to save time adding a bunch of PPAs. However I did do the clean since then.

[Snowhog]

Check your ~/.bashrc file to see if the auto-completion section is enabled:

# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
    . /etc/bash_completion
fi

When you are in a console, you are using your user environment, so the ~/.bashrc file is being used.

[Xplorer4x4]

Check your ~/.bashrc file to see if the auto-completion section is enabled:

# enable programmable completion features ([B]you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc[/B] and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
    . /etc/bash_completion
fi

When you are in a console, you are using your user environment, so the ~/.bashrc file is being used.

According to the comments in bold it shouldnt matter, but I did check the one in the home folder and autocompletition is enabled.

[Snowhog]

Do you by chance have Adobe Reader installed? Does the file acroread.sh (a symlink) exist in /etc/bash_completion.d?

[Xplorer4x4]

Negative and Negative. Didn't realize Adobe Reader was available on linux. okular does the job for me.

[Snowhog]

Are you running Konsole, or an Emacs console??