I'm not sure if I would want apt-get install autocompletion to skip installed packages.. after all.. "sudo apt-get install yakuake --reinstall" is a valid command.
The issue with autocompletion of not installable packages might be because "apt-cache pkgnames", which is the where the package names come from, lists not only installable packages but also package names that it finds in the depends- and suggests-fields. It is possible to get rid of some of these not installable packages by changing the file /etc/bash_completion, line 2135 from COMPREPLY=( $( apt-cache pkgnames $cur 2> /dev/null ) ) to COMPREPLY=( $( apt-cache pkgnames -o Apt::Cache::Allnames=false $cur 2> /dev/null ) ) I'm not sure if this change comes with any bad side effects.. I'm using it on my system right now and I haven't noticed anything bad so far. (Line numbers and such is taken from my machine running ubuntu 9.04 64bit) -- aptitude install autocompletion sugests packages that are installed/not installable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299912 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
