Luckily, regular expression continue to work - they just have to start with ^ or end with $. Therefore, the command above could be rewritten as:
sudo apt install ^gnome-user-docs.* While using the ^ character stops bash-completion from working, it is still much better than no pattern matching at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872200 Title: apt does not accept globs and regexes in some cases To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1872200/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
