Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 03:18:32PM +1100, CaT wrote:
> Felt that was a bit too many packages (182 new i386 packages) to be installed so:
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> apt-get purge ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
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> For you this will get rid of more packages than you may want. Make a note.
> For me skype is not installed as a deb so that's safe.
>
> ldd `which skype`
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> Gives me a list of libs it uses, including missing, which led to:
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> apt-get install libqtgui4:i386 libc6-i686:i386
> apt-get install libqt4-xml:i386
> apt-get install libqt4-dbus:i386 libqt4-network:i386
> apt-get install libxv1:i386
> apt-get install libxss1:i386
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> This gives me 39 i386 packages. A -lot- less.
Then I spotted libc6-i386 so...
apt-get purge libc6-i386
Which removed 32bit asound and so you
apt-get install libasound2:i386
And sorted.
System should be clean of 32bit kludges and properly multi-arch now.
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