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Linux Mint 20: apt is not working with * symbol #34

Closed kelebek333 closed 4 years ago

kelebek333 commented 4 years ago

Hi, you can look this issue. https://github.com/linuxmint/mintsystem/issues/114

xenopeek commented 4 years ago

Linux Mint's apt uses /usr/bin/apt for package installs and removals. From /usr/bin/apt version 2.0, which is used on Linux Mint 20/Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, wildcards like nvidia-prime* are not supported and instead it uses aptitude style patterns like ~n^nividia-prime for the same. This is a contentious change and upstream is reverting the removal of wildcards: https://lists.debian.org/deity/2020/03/msg00055.html

For your example the syntax would be: apt purge ~n^nividia-prime. Meaning, purge all packages with name (~n) starting (^) with nvidia-prime. BTW you don't need to use sudo with apt.