On Friday 03 June 2016 20:06:57 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Some more explanations: these tilde-on-letter combinations are search
> patterns for aptitude. "~c" stands for packages already removed but
> not purged, there are some config files left on the system. See also
> "--purge --pending" in the man page of dpkg.
> So this does no harm if you don't intend to reinstall one of these
> packages.
>
> Just to list these sort of packages command
>
> aptitude search '~c'
>
> "~ramd64" addresses all packages for architecture amd64, "~i"
> addresses all installed packages. The patterns can be combined, for
> example
>
> aptitude search '~c~ramd64'
>
> Could you show what this command lists?
> You said
>
> aptitude search '~i~ramd64'
>
Still does not return anything
> didn't list any package, which would mean there is no amd64 package
> installed on your system.
>
> Could you also show the outcome of
>
> dpkg -l | grep ':amd64'
root@coyote:/var/lib/dpkg# dpkg -l | grep ':amd64'
ii gcc-4.7-base:amd64 4.7.2-5
amd64 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
ii libacl1:amd64 2.2.51-8
amd64 Access control list shared library
ii libasound2:amd64 1.0.25-4
amd64 shared library for ALSA applications
ii libatk1.0-0:amd64 2.4.0-2
amd64 ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1:amd64 1:2.4.46-8
amd64 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudiofile1:amd64 0.3.4-2
amd64 Open-source version of SGI's audiofile library
ii libavahi-client3:amd64 0.6.31-2
amd64 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common-data:amd64 0.6.31-2
amd64 Avahi common data files
ii libavahi-common3:amd64 0.6.31-2
amd64 Avahi common library
ii libbz2-1.0:amd64 1.0.6-4
amd64 high-quality block-sorting file compressor library -
runtime
ii libcomerr2:amd64 1.42.5-1.1+deb7u1
amd64 common error description library
ii libdatrie1:amd64 0.2.5-3
amd64 Double-array trie library
ii libdbus-1-3:amd64 1.6.8-1+deb7u6
amd64 simple interprocess messaging system (library)
ii libdbus-glib-1-2:amd64 0.100.2-1
amd64 simple interprocess messaging system (GLib-based shared
library)
ii libevent-2.0-5:amd64 2.0.19-stable-3+deb7u1
amd64 Asynchronous event notification library
ii libffi5:amd64 3.0.10-3
amd64 Foreign Function Interface library runtime
ii libfontconfig1:amd64 2.9.0-7.1
amd64 generic font configuration library - runtime
ii libfreetype6:amd64 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u3
amd64 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii libgcc1:amd64 1:4.7.2-5
amd64 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0:amd64 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
amd64 GLib library of C routines
ii libgssapi-krb5-2:amd64 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u7
amd64 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - krb5 GSS-API Mechanism
ii libhunspell-1.3-0:amd64 1.3.2-4
amd64 spell checker and morphological analyzer (shared library)
ii libice6:amd64 2:1.0.8-2
amd64 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjasper1:amd64 1.900.1-13+deb7u4
amd64 JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime library
ii libjbig0:amd64 2.0-2+deb7u1
amd64 JBIGkit libraries
ii libjpeg8:amd64 8d-1+deb7u1
amd64 Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runtime library
ii libk5crypto3:amd64 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u7
amd64 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - Crypto Library
ii libkeyutils1:amd64 1.5.5-3+deb7u1
amd64 Linux Key Management Utilities (library)
ii libkrb5-3:amd64 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u7
amd64 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libkrb5support0:amd64 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u7
amd64 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - Support library
ii liblcms1:amd64 1.19.dfsg2-1.2+deb7u1
amd64 Little CMS color management library
ii liblzma5:amd64 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
amd64 XZ-format compression library
ii libmng1:amd64 1.0.10-3
amd64 Multiple-image Network Graphics library
ii libogg0:amd64 1.3.0-4
amd64 Ogg bitstream library
ii libpcre3:amd64 1:8.30-5
amd64 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - runtime
files
ii libpng12-0:amd64 1.2.49-1+deb7u2
amd64 PNG library - runtime
ii libselinux1:amd64 2.1.9-5
amd64 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libsm6:amd64 2:1.2.1-2
amd64 X11 Session Management library
ii libsqlite3-0:amd64 3.7.13-1+deb7u2
amd64 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6:amd64 4.7.2-5
amd64 GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libthai0:amd64 0.1.18-2
amd64 Thai language support library
ii libtiff4:amd64 3.9.6-11
amd64 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (old version)
ii libudev0:amd64 175-7.2
amd64 libudev shared library
ii libuuid1:amd64 2.20.1-5.3
amd64 Universally Unique ID library
ii libvorbis0a:amd64 1.3.2-1.3
amd64 The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec (Decoder
library)
ii libvorbisfile3:amd64 1.3.2-1.3
amd64 The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec (High Level API)
ii libxau6:amd64 1:1.0.7-1
amd64 X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6:amd64 1:1.1.1-1
amd64 X11 Display Manager Control Protocol library
ii libxml2:amd64 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy5
amd64 GNOME XML library
ii zlib1g:amd64 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
amd64 compression library - runtime
and
root@coyote:/var/lib/dpkg# dpkg -l | grep ':amd64'|wc -l
50
Not sure what to believe here.
Thanks jvp.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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