Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages [SOLVED]
On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:03:09 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > I just let it do it all, and will "wait for the other shoe to drop"
> > One thing that seems missing in these procedures is when a bunch of
> > libs have been purged, is a run of ldconfig to clean up things.
>
> No, when purging a debian package, dpkg triggers actions like ldconfig
> as prescribed by control scripts contained in the package (a.o., these
> script are still on the system when a package is merely removed).
> These scripts are stored in /var/lib/dpkg/info for every package
> installed. For example there is a "libpixman-1-0:amd64.triggers"
> package on my system (amd64) which triggers ldconfig.
>
> Best regards,
> jvp.
I don't figure it hurts anything. kmail, after that died an agonizing
death, but after an ldconfig, and a restart, seems to be it old self
again. Nothing else I've started since that worked before, has refused
to work after, so I think I'm pretty close to finished.
Many thanks JVP.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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