aptitude or apt-get: how to use the jolly character?

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Suppose that I want to remove all the packages beginning with `texlive', that
are a lot in my system.

If I do: `aptitude purge texlive*', the system complains that no package has
that name.

How to do then?

Thanks for any help
Rodolfo