Re: Update Manager absurdity?
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Joey Hess wrote:
> Default User wrote:
>> I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD
>> K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22
>> available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description
>> states is a 64-bit library "meant for AMD64 systems".
>>
>> WTF ?!?!
>>
>> I have been trusting Update Manager to list only updates correct for my
>> system, and although often not knowing whether particular updates were
>> needed by my system, installed them all. Now it appears that my trust
>> was misplaced, to say the least.
>
> libc6-amd64 is part of the base system (for no particularly good reason
> but all it uses is some disk space), so you probably already had it
> installed.
>
There are a whole lot of 64-bit libraries with a standard install.
Take a look at your /lib64 directory. Quite a few files...
On my system they take up 2.8 megabytes of space.
joe@MyBox:/lib64$ du -BKB
2814kB .
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