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Newtron Malayalam
Asked: 2020-05-01 05:32:35 +0800 CST

apt install "*" method in Ubuntu 20.04 does not work [duplicate]

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I was trying to install all python packages using sudo apt install python3*, but it gave me this error:

newtron@newtron:~$ sudo apt install python3*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python3*
software-installation command-line apt 20.04

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  1. Best Answer

    Ubuntu 20.04 introduced Apt 2.0

    From the Release Notes:

    New Features

    • Commands accepting package names now accept aptitude-style patterns. The syntax of patterns is mostly a subset of aptitude, see apt-patterns(7) for more details.

    Incompatibilities

    • The apt(8) command no longer accepts regular expressions or wildcards as package arguments, use patterns (see New Features).
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  2. I have reported this as bug to launchpad - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1860366 against Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

    You can still use apt-get for this purpose:

    sudo apt-get install "python3*"

    will do what you (and really me) want. We need to change our habits here.

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