[Wylug-help] Bash Completion on Centos

[Smylers]

John Hodrien writes:

> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Smylers wrote:
> 
> > Hi.  Sourcing /etc/bash_completion is failing for me: This is the
> > first time I've ever used Centos (or Red Hat Enterprise).
> 
> I can at least reproduce it, but am not about to try and find out why
> at the minute.

It appears to be this bug:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487774
  http://j.mp/Bash_completion_readonly_bug_fix

> No such problem with the epel release.
> 
> 1.0-2.el5 from EPEL works just fine afaik.

Thanks; I hadn't previously heard of Epel.

Is it recommended?  I'm not the sys-admin for this server, and if it's
currently using only officially supported packages I'm wary about
installing things from elsewhere.

Smylers