On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:01:31PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > 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")
Yeah, what I ended up doing is: apt-cache search -- -dbg Silly me. Feel free to close this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]