Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Searching a package which has a plus or minus symbol gives nothing. For e.g. :- $ aptitude search libstdc++6 $ This tells it doesn't know what to do with packages which have + or - in their name. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7.3 compiled at Oct 7 2015 23:33:19 Compiler: g++ 5.2.1 20151003 Compiled against: apt version 4.16.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.6.1 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20150810 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 4.16.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcb5586000) libapt-pkg.so.4.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.16 (0x00007fcb86b02000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fcb868d2000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fcb866a7000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fcb864a1000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fcb861a2000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fcb85ed4000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fcb85cbb000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fcb858b9000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fcb8569b000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fcb85320000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fcb8501b000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fcb84e04000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcb84a61000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fcb8485e000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fcb84659000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fcb8443e000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fcb8422e000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fcb8400a000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fcb83e02000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fcb83bfc000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000557883f89000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.7.3-1 ii libapt-pkg4.16 1.0.10.2 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-3+b1 ii libc6 2.21-0experimental1 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-21 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.1-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.11.1-1 ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-21 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.21-1.2 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.7.3-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.47 ii debtags 2.0.1 ii tasksel 3.33 -- no debconf information -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8