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gsingh93

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Registered: 2013-07-19

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Autocomplete doesn't work for packages that were just installed

After installing a program with pacman, I wasn't able to use autocomplete in bash or zsh for that program, even though I was able to run it. If I made a new terminal autocomplete worked fine, it was only in the terminal I had just used to install the application where the autocomplete didn't work. I found out after a while that I can manually run `hash -r` after installing a package to get this to work. Is there any way I could do this automatically after installing a package, or is there another way I could get autocomplete to work right after installing a package?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: Autocomplete doesn't work for packages that were just installed

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zs … ent_rehash

gsingh93

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Registered: 2013-07-19

Posts: 96

Re: Autocomplete doesn't work for packages that were just installed

I set this in my .zshrc, sourced it, and installed a package, but autocomplete still didn't work.

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Autocomplete doesn't work for packages that were just installed

Your .zshrc is only read when you start a new shell: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zs … tion_files

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: Autocomplete doesn't work for packages that were just installed

I think you should create a pacman wrapper that simply runs hash after the pacman command.

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