Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages [SOLVED]
On Saturday 04 June 2016 17:49:02 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote on 06/04/16 23:02:
> > On Saturday 04 June 2016 16:12:30 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> >> I'm glad it worked for you.
> >> Now I'm just curious what
> >>
> >> aptitude search '~c'
> >>
> >> spits out now.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> jvp.
> >
> > A rather lengthy list I'll paste, wordwrap off again:
> >
> > root@coyote:/var/lib/dpkg# aptitude search ~c
> > c brasero
> > - CD/DVD burning application for GNOME c
> > brasero-common
> > - Common files for the Brasero CD burning application
> > and library c browser-plugin-gnash
> > - GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player -
> > Plugin for Mozilla and derivatives
>
> <snip>
>
> > c xfdesktop4
> > - xfce desktop background, icons and root menu
> > manager c xfprint4
> > - Printer GUI for Xfce4 c xfwm4
> > -
> > window manager of the Xfce project
> >
> > That's all folks! Thanks JVP.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> All these remnants of previously installed packages can be safely
> removed from your system in my opinion.
> If you prefer dpkg, try
>
> dpkg --purge --pending
>
Failed, libpixman1.0 has deps from the xorg.server
root@coyote:/var/lib/dpkg# dpkg --purge --pending
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libpixman-1-0:i386:
xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.21.6).
libpixman-1-dev depends on libpixman-1-0 (= 0.26.0-4+deb7u2).
xserver-xorg-core depends on libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.21.6).
libcairo2:i386 depends on libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.21.6).
dpkg: error processing libpixman-1-0:i386 (--purge):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
libpixman-1-0:i386
> Or heavier, using aptitude
>
> aptitude purge '~c'
And that wants to behead the system, removing quite a few packages I use
frequently, so I gave it a 'n'.
>
> but this could try to remove also other automatically installed
> packages which are not needed by any other package. To get a list of
> such candidates use
>
> aptitude search '~g'
And that returns an equally lengthy list, all prefaced with an 'id'. No
clue what that means as I don't believe I have the reference manual.
>
> "g" like garbage.
>
> Regards,
> jvp.
Thanks JVP.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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