Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages [SOLVED]
Gene Heskett wrote on 06/05/16 21:52:
> 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
>
You're welcome.
Regards,
jvp.
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