Hi, On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 00:31 -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote: > I got the following error when trying to search for all the debug > packages: > > $ apt-cache search \*-dbg > E: Regex compilation error I suspect you want apt-cache search --names-only .*-dbg (Your query can be made to work by using \\*-dbg or "\*-dbg", but it won't give you any results, as there are no packages with names ending "*-dbg") Regards, Adam