On Monday 21 February 2005 06:47, Thaths wrote:
> No it does not:
>
> homer:~# apt-get install *
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package Desktop
> homer:~# apt-get install '*'
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression

Well, when I told it to do openoffice-\*, it did it without any problems.

> Besides, this RH-ish approach of "install all packages" is not a good
> idea on Debian. If one is going to be a responsible Debian user, the
> best approach is to install only what is needed.
>
> Thaths

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