On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 05/21/2010 10:41 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >>> 'help complete' is the easiest way to see the short details; other than >>> that, look for complete under 'SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS' in the man page. >> >> I see the following error. What is wrong with my bash? > > Nothing is wrong with bash. Bash is telling you that you have not yet > installed a completion handler for python. > > But it _is_ a sign that you have not installed the bash-completion > package, nor installed completions manually. > >> >> $ complete -p python >> bash: complete: python: no completion specification >> $ type _python >> bash: type: _python: not found > > What's your distro? On fedora, do 'yum install -y bash-completion'. Or > get it yourself: http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/files/ > > Then start a new shell, and compare the difference.
I installed bash-completion. Then I start a new shell. But I still see the above error messages. $ sudo apt-get install bash-completion [sudo] password for administrator: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: bash-completion 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 124kB of archives. After this operation, 479kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://escalade.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu hardy/main bash-completion 20060301-3ubuntu3 [124kB] Fetched 124kB in 0s (4413kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package bash-completion. (Reading database ... 66941 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking bash-completion (from .../bash-completion_20060301-3ubuntu3_all.deb) ... Setting up bash-completion (20060301-3ubuntu3) ... -- Regards, Peng
