Bug#645281: apt-get

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 02:08, dschinn <cv.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> apt-get install cups*
> does not download the packages ???
>
> And cups*-installation fails because of "missing packages" ...

You know that cups* is not the usual bash-like global,
but a full-blown regular expression?

cups* therefore matches cup, cupt, cupssssss, apcupsd, …
What you seem to mean is more like ^cups.*$

But the usefulness highly depends on what you want as this
includes also e.g. cups-dbg, which you properly not need…

All in all we can help you better if you tell us what you want explicitly
and what the exact output is. Some vague description and parts of an
error message aren't enough for that.

Rule of thumb: If in doubt, better include more instead of less.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies