Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 06/03/16 20:09: > Hi, > > Gene Heskett wrote on 06/03/16 13:14: >> Greetings all; >> >> I re-added the amd64 architecture to the architecture's in dpkg/synaptic, >> but the package -> force-version remains stubbornly ghosted, so I cannot >> fix any broken patckages that are preventing the install of any updates. >> >> So I try to have dpkg remove the amd64 aarchitecture, but now get a >> database is locked error. The system is working, quite stably, but I > > Using aptitude I would command > > aptitude purge '~ramd64'
Sorry, this should be aptitude purge '~i~ramd64' > > and maybe > > aptitude purge '~c' > > which should remove leftover config files from packages previously removed. > > Then again > > dpkg --remove-architecture amd64 > > Regards, > jvp. > >> cannot update anything. A dpkg -C spits out about 60 files in error, >> all tagged :amd64. >> >> What are the steps I should take to fix this? >> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett >> > > >
