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How to make the apt autocompletion work in minimal system (in LXC container)?

rated 0 times [ 7] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2053 / 2 Years ago, thu, january 20, 2022, 3:25:20

When I work inside thin LXC container on 12.04 I have only very basic system. In particular the /etc/bash_completion.d is missing the e.g. apt, that I find particularly useful.

Is there any standard package, that installs the autocompletion for the apt, or should I copy the file manually? And just copying the files into /etc/bash_completion.d manually just doesn't seem to work.

I use bash as my command interpreter.

What am I missing here?

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answered 2 Years ago fectlyole · Accepted Answer

OK, I found the problem.

There are 4 essential things required for auto completion:

Bash

Executable script /etc/bash_completion (this is the part I was missing)

Not-executable scripts in folder /etc/bash_completion.d. I believe they get installed silently together with the associated packages.

Execution of the script /etc/bash_completion within the Bash (the standard ~/.bashrc takes care of that)