apt-get install gcc-g++ fails because ++ is removed.

[Kevin Cozens]

Sy Ali wrote:
> apt-get install gcc-g++
> becomes
> apt-get install gcc-g
[snip]
> I tried various kinds of quoting and escaping but I couldn't hit upon
> the right way to have the ++ passed to apt-get.

Sometimes I have had problems using \ to escape some special characters in 
commands. I find putting them inside [] often seems to work.

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