Install without root permissions

[MicroNateId]

Is there any way to install this to a local user directory without having root permissions?

Work environment is locked down, but I would love to benefit from the full completion capability.

[akinomyoga]

You can use the standard ./configure & make install as described in the following part of README.

bash-completion/README.md

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	If you don't have the package readily available for your distribution, or
	you simply don't want to use one, you can install bash completion using the
	standard commands for GNU autotools packages:
	```shell
	autoreconf -i # if not installing from prepared release tarball
	./configure
	make # GNU make required
	make check # optional
	make install # as root
	make installcheck # optional, requires python3 with pytest >= 3.6, pexpect
	```

You can specify the flag --prefix=/install/path/to/bash-completion (please replace the path with the one where you want to install bash-completion, such as $HOME/.local or $HOME/.opt/bash-completion/master) to the ./configure command in the above instructions.

./configure --prefix=/install/path/to/bash-completion

[scop]

Additionally, I'm not sure if we document it anywhere, but it's possible to run in-place from a git clone without actually "installing" anything.

In a nutshell, clone the repo somewhere, cd to that dir, then

autoreconf -i
./configure
make

...and just . /path/to/that/dir/bash_completion in bashrc.

make clean && make is advisable after a git pull later when upgrading to refresh symlinks.

[MicroNateId]

Thank, will give that a shot this week - the other bonus is I've got two different linux distributions run with the same home directory mount point... so might need two different folders to configure for what each environment supports, but that doesn't sound too bad.

[scop]

Most of the functionality is determined at runtime as opposed to configure/make time, so sharing the same dir between completely different systems should generally work just fine.