apt install "*" method in Ubuntu 20.04 does not work
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).
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.