Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:58:53 +0200
Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> wrote:

> Since I use a pure 64-bit system, I overlooked that only one of
> imagemagick-6.q16 or imagemagick-6.q16:i386 can be installed.
> I think it's better to re-install imagemagick-6.q16.

Done.

> And then show the output when trying to purge imagemagick, please.
> I think there must be involved a i386 version of some cups package.

Thanks for helping me to try to figure this out.

~# aptitude remove imagemagick
The following packages will be REMOVED:  
  imagemagick 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 199 kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 cups-filters : Depends: imagemagick (>= 6.4~) but it is not going to be installed
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Install the following packages:                       
1)     imagemagick:i386 [8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1 (stable)]

Celejar