Re: Can I remove i386 packages?

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

On 1/23/21 10:19 AM, steve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the following i386 packages installed on my system. Can I removed
> them without any side-effects?
> 
> apt list --installed | grep i386
> 
> gcc-10-base/testing,now 10.2.1-6 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libc6/testing,now 2.31-9 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libcom-err2/testing,now 1.45.6-1 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libcrypt1/testing,now 1:4.4.17-1 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libgcc-s1/testing,now 10.2.1-6 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libgssapi-krb5-2/testing,now 1.18.3-4 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libidn2-0/testing,now 2.3.0-5 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libk5crypto3/testing,now 1.18.3-4 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libkeyutils1/testing,now 1.6.1-2 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libkrb5-3/testing,now 1.18.3-4 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libkrb5support0/testing,now 1.18.3-4 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libnsl2/testing,now 1.3.0-2 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libnss-nis/testing,now 3.1-4 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libnss-nisplus/testing,now 1.3-4 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libssl1.1/testing,now 1.1.1i-2 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libtirpc3/testing,now 1.3.1-1 i386  [installé, automatique]
> libunistring2/testing,now 0.9.10-4 i386  [installé, automatique]
> 

Hi Steve,

yes, you can. Look at the first answer there

https://superuser.com/questions/714391/how-do-i-remove-all-i386-architecture-packages-from-my-debian-installation

Kind regards
Georgi