Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Hi,

Gene Heskett wrote on 06/03/16 13:14:
> Greetings all;
> 
> I re-added the amd64 architecture to the architecture's in dpkg/synaptic, 
> but the package -> force-version remains stubbornly ghosted, so I cannot 
> fix any broken patckages that are preventing the install of any updates.
> 
> So I try to have dpkg remove the amd64 aarchitecture, but now get a 
> database is locked error.  The system is working, quite stably, but I 

Using aptitude I would command

  aptitude purge '~ramd64'

and maybe

  aptitude purge '~c'

which should remove leftover config files from packages previously removed.

Then again

  dpkg --remove-architecture amd64

Regards,
jvp.

> cannot update anything.  A dpkg -C spits out about 60 files in error, 
> all tagged :amd64.
> 
> What are the steps I should take to fix this?
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>