[Bug 1872200] Re: apt does not accept globs and regexes in some cases

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I stumbled upon this when trying to install gnome-user-docs with all the
available languages:

$ sudo apt install gnome-user-docs*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gnome-user-docs*

So far I can do what I want by using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install gnome-user-docs*

But I read in NEWS that the change is planned to propagate to apt-* ...
Is there no less intrusive way to deal with package names such as g++?

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Title:
  apt does not accept globs and regexes in some cases

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Observed with Ubuntu 20.04 Beta.

  apt remove 'mypackage*' does not remove all installed packages
  starting with “mypackage”.  Instead:

  $ sudo apt remove 'mypackage*'
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  E: Unable to locate package mypackage*

  However:

  $ sudo apt list --installed 'mypackage*'
  Listing... Done
  mypackage-data-v1/focal,focal,now 0.3.2-5build1 all [installed,automatic]
  mypackage1/focal,now 0.3.2-5build1 amd64 [installed]

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