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

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

The aptitude on your system is an older version (on sid it is 0.8.1), maybe it
hasn't the full architecture support.
The dpkg output is reliable, I think. Since in the output of the dpkg command
all amd64 packages have an "ii" at the beginning of the line, it shows that all
your amd64 packages are installed correctly.

Then, I'd like to see the output of

dpkg -C

You said it showed 60 package names in error all tagged :amd64.
These are not shown in the list generated by "dpkg -l | grep ':amd64'".
They should be taken care of first by purging them all together.
I don't remember the output format. The idea is to generate a command to extract
the package names from this and feed it to dpkg --purge.

Regards,
jvp.


Gene Heskett wrote on 06/04/16 02:50:
> On Friday 03 June 2016 20:06:57 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> 
>> Some more explanations: these tilde-on-letter combinations are search
>> patterns for aptitude. "~c" stands for packages already removed but
>> not purged, there are some config files left on the system. See also
>> "--purge --pending" in the man page of dpkg.
>> So this does no harm if you don't intend to reinstall one of these
>> packages.
>>
>> Just to list these sort of packages command
>>
>>   aptitude search '~c'
>>
>> "~ramd64" addresses all packages for architecture amd64, "~i"
>> addresses all installed packages. The patterns can be combined, for
>> example
>>
>>   aptitude search '~c~ramd64'
>>
>> Could you show what this command lists?
>> You said
>>
>>   aptitude search '~i~ramd64'
>>
> Still does not return anything
> 
>> didn't list any package, which would mean there is no amd64 package
>> installed on your system.
>>
>> Could you also show the outcome of
>>
>>   dpkg -l | grep ':amd64'
> 
> root@coyote:/var/lib/dpkg# dpkg -l | grep ':amd64' 
> ii  gcc-4.7-base:amd64                        4.7.2-5                                   
> amd64        GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
> ii  libacl1:amd64                             2.2.51-8                                  
> amd64        Access control list shared library

<snip>

> ii  libxml2:amd64                             2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy5                     
> amd64        GNOME XML library
> ii  zlib1g:amd64                              1:1.2.7.dfsg-13                           
> amd64        compression library - runtime
> 
> and
> root@coyote:/var/lib/dpkg# dpkg -l | grep ':amd64'|wc -l
> 50
> 
> Not sure what to believe here.
> 
> Thanks jvp.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>