On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:18:01PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large > number of i386 packages on them that I'd just as soon be rid of. is > there a good way to simply tell a package manager that I want everything > involving that architecture deleted? The best answer I've found on my > own has been to use dpkg and grep to find everything with :i386, and > then construct a huge dpkg --purge command to get rid of them all. > Hoping for something a little simpler...
# aptitude --purge-unused markauto "~ri386" This should only remove packages that are not needed anymore, assuming that nobody messed up the auto markings of your installed packages. At the yes/no prompt, you might want to check the list of packages to be purged. You could also run a first pass without "--purge-unused", check if you are happy with the results, then do a second pass with this option included. Regards, Mirko
