How to get dnf auto completion in zsh

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I have used zsh for a long time and I love autocompletion. For example, if I enter sudo dnf install fire and press TAB then it shows the possible results.

Today I have freshly installed fedora 41 and I couldn’t configure dnf autocompletion with zsh though it works with bash. Is there anything that I am missing?

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zsh is not installed by default … what did you do so far?

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I don’t use zsh.
However, while bash autocompletion functions are located here /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/dnf[1] and installed alongside dnf itself, zsh functions are located here /usr/share/zsh/5.9/functions
Zsh also provides dnf autocompletion… but… now we have dnf5 and looking at /usr/share/zsh/5.9/functions/_dnf

#compdef dnf dnf-2 dnf-3
#
# based on dnf-4.2.18
...

So, likely, it doesn’t work with dnf5, and nobody has still created autocompletion functions for zsh, maybe.

  1. and notably /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/dnf5 ↩︎

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Nothing much, Just installed zsh and oh my zsh.

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Apparently there is a new dnf5 completion file for zsh that is WIP.
Have look at Re: dnf5 completions.
Make sure to read the whole conversion and not miss any updates.

just rename the file to _dnf and store it in your zsh completion functions directory.
for me it was located at:
/usr/share/zsh/5.9/functions

Note: dont delete the old dnf4 _dnf file and store it as backup as _dnf.bak.

Thanks to Mikael Magnusson and few other developers for making this possible so soon.

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Welcome to Fedora @yovelb , good news thanks!

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