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Re: Not installable package ?



Hello

Florian Ernst (<florian@uni-hd.de>) wrote:

> Hm, I wouldn't trust apt-get's regex matching any further than I can
> throw it; ever tried a "apt-get install 'emacs21*'" and wondered how
> xemacs20 could be matched...? ;)

Looks like apt-get uses the regexp as a a subtring of the names of
possible packes.

emacs21* means "emacs2" and any number of "1" following, e.g.

emacs2
emacs21
emacs211
emacs2111

and emacs2 is part of xemacs20.

Perhaps what you wanted is "^emacs21.*"?

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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