Re: Strange architechture problem
On Monday 23 May 2016 17:17:19 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote on 05/23/16 05:53:
> <snip>
>
> > gene@coyote:/var/cache/apt/archives$ sudo
> > dpkg -i --force-remove-reinstreq libexpat1_2.1.0-1+deb7u3_i386.deb
> > libexpat1-dev_2.1.0-1+deb7u3_i386.deb
>
> <snip>
>
> > dpkg: error processing libexpat1:i386 (--install):
> > package libexpat1:i386 2.1.0-1+deb7u3 cannot be configured because
> > libexpat1:amd64 is at a different version (2.1.0-1+deb7u2)
>
> <snip>
>
> This is the relevant error message, I think. Either, update the amd64
> version too or purge it like so:
>
> dpkg --purge 'libexpat1:amd64'
>
> Anything depending on it (should only be amd64 packages) must also be
> purged.
>
> Regards,
>
> jvp.
After an hour long search of the whole email corpus here (about 22 Gb) I
did find the previous procedure, but had to add the --force-all option
to get this:
==============================
root@coyote:/etc/dpkg# dpkg --purge --force-all libexpat1:amd64
dpkg: libexpat1:amd64: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
requested:
libfontconfig1:amd64 depends on libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1).
(Reading database ... 421566 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libexpat1:amd64 ...
Purging configuration files for libexpat1:amd64 ...
root@coyote:/etc/dpkg# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up libexpat1:i386 (2.1.0-1+deb7u3) ...
Setting up libexpat1-dev (2.1.0-1+deb7u3) ...
========================
And now a normal run of synaptic is happy as a clam. The only thing I
had to restart was tde's kmail. Its possible a refresh of the libs by
running as root, an "ldconfig" might have fixed it too, but I didn't
think of it at the time.
So once again, the solution for a severe case of stupidity on my part, is
part of the lists archives. :)
Thank you.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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