On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:38:21PM +0100, Marcus Crafter wrote: > > $> apt-get install gtk2-engines-*
I feel I should point out that this does not do what you think it does. The presence of a '*' or one of a few other characters in a package name given to apt-get makes the whoe thing into a regexp that is checked against every package name. So the above translates into: Match all packages with the string 'gtk2-engines' followed by any number of '-' characters in the name. 98% of the time this is what you want. But that last 2% can be a pain. I just got bit by this, and remembered this message. So. Enlightenment, I hope, if a little late. Tom
